A snapshot of the US in numbers

303,824,640 is the total population

155,200,000 is the total labor force

$48,000 is the gross domestic product

20% of households have received practically all of the wage increases since 1975

$810 billion is the merchandise trade deficit

35.5% of Americans work in managerial, professional, and technical fields

24.8% of Americans work in sales and offices

22.6% of Americans work in manufacturing, extraction, transportation, and crafts

3.892 trillion kilo watt hours is the electricity consumption of the country

8.457 million barrels of oil are produced every day

20.68 million barrels of oil are consumed every day

$1.377 trillion is amount of exports per year

49.0% of this is in capital goods like transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment, etc.

21.4% is how much trading the US does with Canada, it’s largest trade partner

11.7% is how much trade the US does with Mexico

163.2 million is how many main telephone lines there are in the country

255 million is how many cell phones are in the country

14,947 is the number of airports in the US

4.06% of GDP is how much is spent on military expenditures

59,413,358 is the number of males age 16-49 fit for military service

59,187,183 is the number of females age 16-49 fit for military service

6,465,799 km is the total amount of roadways

2,255,964 km of which are unpaved

82.1% of the country speaks English

10.7% speak Spanish

51.3% consider themselves Protestant

23.9% would say they are Roman Catholic

67.1% of the country is between the ages of 15 and 64 years old

36.7 years is the median age

78.14 years is the total life expectancy in the US

81.13 years if you’re female

0.883% is the population growth rate

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