Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

2006

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    The next 100 million Americans

    That’s how long it will likely take for the U.S. to add another 100 million to its population, having reached the 300 million mark this October

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    India Sees China Becoming No. 1

    That’s the number of people in India who think China will replace the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower at some time during the next 50 years. About a third (32%) think this will happen in the next 10 years.

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    Single-Sex Education

    That’s the number of public schools experimenting with single-sex education — up from only 5 schools in the last decade.

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    All the President’s Pressers

    President Bush's second term has brought a big increase in the number of solo press conferences. Bush had only had 17 in his first term but looks like he's on the way to doubling that number in this four-year stint. The president still lags behind previous White House residents, but the change suggests a different approach to the press.

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    Papers Hope to Sell Print + Online Readers to Advertisers

    Sandwiched between a declining print industry and an online universe still building economic momentum, newspaper companies are looking at combined Internet and newsprint readership as a new way of measuring audience. A big unanswered question is whether advertisers will agree that this is a more accurate way to count their potential customers.

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    Brave New World

    A media conference featuring a futuristic video and a keynote address from a BBC official sketched out a scenario for news delivery that may be just around the corner. But will the proliferation of citizen journalists and wireless news platforms create its own set of financial and credibility problems for the journalism profession?

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    Growing Number of Liberal Democrats

    About one-third of Democratic voters now describe themselves as liberal, an increase since 2000, when just one-in-four Democrats self-identified with the “L-word.” Meantime, some 41% of Democrats now call themselves moderate and 23% say they are conservatives.

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    November Turnout May Be High

    Unlike the past three mid-term election campaigns, Democrats are more enthusiastic than Republicans about voting this year.

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    November Turnout May Be High

    Summary of Findings Turnout in the 2006 midterm election may well be higher than normal, given the level of interest expressed by voters. Today, 51% of voters say they have given a lot of thought to this November’s election, up from 45% at this point in 2002 and 42% in early October of 1998. Even […]

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    Job Offshoring

    That’s the percentage of American workers who believe it would be possible for their employer to hire someone outside the country to do the job they are doing right now

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