Top toughest exams in the world:

?? China → Gaokao Exam
?? India → IIT JEE Exam
?? India → UPSC Exam
??????? England → Mensa
???? US/Canada → GRE
???? US/Canada → CFA
?? US → CCIE
?? India → GATE
?? US → USMLE
?? US → California Bar Exam

Literacy rate:

?? Chad: 27%
?? Burkina Faso: 34%
?? Mali: 31%
?? South Sudan: 35%
?? Afghanistan: 37%
?? CAR: 37%
?? Niger: 38%
?? Guinea: 45%
?? Ethiopia: 52%
?? Pakistan: 58%
?? Nigeria: 62%
?? Nepal: 71%
?? Egypt: 75%
?? Bangladesh: 75%
?? India: 76%
?? Algeria: 81%
?? Kenya: 83%
?? Iraq: 86%
?? Syria: 86%
?? Iran: 89%
?? South Africa: 90%
?? Israel: 92%
?? Brazil: 95%
?? Mexico: 95%
?? Indonesia: 96%
?? Philippines: 96%
?? Turkey: 97%
?? China: 97%
?? Argentina: 97%
?? Oman: 97%
??Saudi Arabia: 98%
?? UAE: 98%
?? Qatar: 98%
?? South Korea: 99%
?? Serbia: 99%
?? Spain: 99%
?? Italy: 99%
?? Russia: 100%
?? Ukraine: 100%
?? Poland: 100%
?? North Korea: 100%

Note: The share of adults aged 15 and older who can both read and write. Figures are rounded.

According to World Bank (2023)

Cities with the most billionaires in 2024:

?? New York: 119
?? London: 97
?? Mumbai: 92
?? Beijing: 91
?? Shanghai: 87
?? Shenzhen: 84
?? Hong Kong: 65
?? Moscow: 59
?? New Delhi: 57
?? San Francisco: 52
?? Bangkok: 49
?? Taipei: 45
?? Paris: 44
?? Hangzhou: 43
?? Singapore: 42
?? Guangzhou: 39
?? Jakarta: 37
?? Sao Paulo: 37
?? Los Angeles: 31
?? Seoul: 31

According to Hurun Global Rich List 2024

? The cost of training AI:

Transformer (Google): $930
BERT-Large (Google): $3,288
RoBERTa Large (Meta): $160k
LaMDA (Google): $1.3M
Llama 2 70B (Meta): $3.9M
GPT-3 175B (davinci) (OpenAI): $4.3M
Megatron-Turing NLG 530B (Microsoft / NVIDIA): $6.4M
PaLM (540B) (Google): $12.4M
GPT-4 (OpenAI): $78.3M
Gemini Ultra (Google): $191.4M

According to The AI Index Report

The happiest countries in the world:

1. Finland ??
2. Denmark ??
3. Iceland ??
4. Israel ??
5. Netherlands ??
6. Sweden ??
7. Norway ??
8. Switzerland ??
9. Luxembourg ??
10. New Zealand ??
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11. Australia ??
12. Canada ??
13. USA ??
14. Germany ??
15. UK ??
16. France ??
17. Romania ??
18. UAE ??
19. Saudi Arabia ??
20. Spain ??
21. Italy ??
22. Mexico ??
23. Poland ??
24. Kazakhstan ??
25. Japan ??
26. Brazil ??
27. Argentina ??
28. South Korea ??
29. China ??
30. Russia ??
31. Philippines ??
32. Indonesia ??
33. South Africa ??
34. Venezuela ??
35. Ukraine ??
36. Nigeria ??
37. Iran ??
38. Turkey ??
39. Pakistan ??
40. Bangladesh ??
41. Egypt ??
42. India ??
43. Afghanistan ??

According to World Happiness Report

World’s leaders approval rating:

?? Vladimir Putin: 79%
?? Narendra Modi: 77%
?? Volodymyr Zelenskyy: 73%
?? Andrés López: 64%
?? Alain Berset: 57%
?? Lula da Silva: 51%
?? Anthony Albanese: 46%
?? Giorgia Meloni: 44%
?? Leo Varadkar: 40%
?? Pedro Sánchez: 39%
?? Joe Biden: 39%
?? Alexander De Croo: 35%
?? Mateusz Morawiecki: 33%
?? Ulf Kristersson: 31%
?? Justin Trudeau: 30%
?? Rishi Sunak: 29%
?? Emmanuel Macron: 28%
?? Jonas Gahr Støre: 27%
?? Mark Rutte: 26%
?? Olaf Scholz: 26%
?? Karl Nehammer: 24%
?? Yoon Seok-youl: 20%
?? Fumio Kishida: 19%
?? Petr Fiala: 18%

According to Morning Consult Political Intelligence, WCIOM, KMIC

Where men sit down to wee (% of men):

?? Germany: 40%
?? Australia: 25%
?? Sweden: 22%
?? Denmark: 19%
?? France: 19%
?? Canada: 16%
?? Spain: 14%
?? Italy: 13%
?? USA: 10%
?? Poland: 10%
?? UK: 9%
?? Mexico: 6%
?? Singapore: 5%

*times where you go to the toilet to ONLY urinate

According to YouGov data analytics firm

Annual electric power consumption (kWh per capita):

?? Iceland: 53,832
?? Norway: 23,000
?? Canada: 15,588
?? Finland: 15,250
?? Sweden: 13,480
?? USA: 12,994
?? UAE: 11,563
?? South Korea: 10,497
??Australia: 10,071
?? Saudi Arabia: 9,048
?? Austria: 8,356
?? Japan: 7,820
?? Germany: 7,035
?? France: 6,940
?? Netherlands: 6,713
?? Russia: 6,603
?? Denmark: 5,859
?? Spain: 5,356
?? UK: 5,130
?? Italy: 5,002
?? South Africa: 4,184
?? China: 3,905
?? Ukraine: 3,419
?? Argentina: 3,075
?? Turkiye: 2,815
?? Brazil: 2,611
?? Mexico: 2,186
?? Egypt: 1,592
?? Cuba: 1,448
?? Indonesia: 1,084
?? India: 797
?? Pakistan: 420
?? Bangladesh: 317
?? Kenya: 167
?? Nigeria: 142
?? Niger: 51
?? Haiti: 40

? World: 3,105

According to IEA Statistics © OECD/IEA

Where same-sex marriage is legal:

2001: Netherlands ??

2003: Belgium ??

2005: Canada ??, Spain ??

2006: South Africa ??

2009: Norway ??, Sweden ??

2010: Argentina ??, Iceland ??, Portugal ??

2012: Denmark ??

2013: Brazil ??, France ??, New Zealand ??, Uruguay ??

2014: Luxembourg ??, UK ??

2015: Ireland ??, USA ??

2016: Colombia ??, Greenland ??

2017: Australia ??, Malta ??, Germany ??, Finland ??

2019: Austria ??, Ecuador ??, Taiwan ??

2020: Costa Rica ??, Northern Ireland

2022: Switzerland ??, Slovenia ??, Cuba ??, Mexico ??, Chile ??

2023: Andorra ??

2024: Estonia ??

Note: Same-sex marriage will become legal in Estonia on 1 January 2024.

Most followed accounts on ?:

1. ??Elon Musk: 162.5 million
2. ??Barack Obama: 132m
3. ??Justin Bieber: 111.6m
4. ??Cristiano Ronaldo: 110.2m
5. ??Rihanna: 108.5m
6. ??Katy Perry: 107.1m
7. ??Taylor Swift: 94.7m
8. ??Narendra Modi: 93.0m
9. ??Donald Trump: 87.4m
10. ??Lady Gaga: 83.8m
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11. ?? NASA: 77.9m
12. ?? ?: 67.1m
13. ?? NBA: 44.8m
14. ?? Shah Rukh Khan: 43.8m
15. ?? Joe Biden: 37.6m
16. ?? POTUS: 33.4m
17. ?? Instagram: 33.2m
18. ?? SpaceX: 32.1m
19. ?? Google: 30.9m
20. ?? MrBeast: 24.6m
21. ?? Tesla: 21.2m
22. ?? Imran Khan: 19.9m
23. ?? Joe Rogan: 11.9m
24. ?? Tucker Carlson: 10.6m
25. ?? jack: 6.4m
    2,246. ?? World of Statistics: 3.4m
    2,565. ?? Lex Fridman: 3.1m
    2,622. ?? World of Engineering: 3.1m
    23,247. ?? Linda Yaccarino: 0.55m