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Number of military personnel: 🇨🇳 China: 2.035 million 🇮🇳 India: 1.5 m 🇺🇸 USA: 1.34 m 🇰🇵 North Korea: 1.28 m 🇷🇺 Russia: 1.26 m 🇺🇦 Ukraine: 677 k 🇵🇰 Pakistan: 660 k 🇮🇷 Iran: 610 k 🇰🇷 South Korea: 450 k 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 450 k 🇪🇬 Egypt: 438 k 🇧🇷 Brazil: 374 k 🇹🇷 Turkey: 355 k 🇲🇽 Mexico: 301 k 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 257 k 🇯🇵 Japan: 247 k 🇫🇷 France: 204 k 🇩🇪 Germany: 179 k 🇵🇱 Poland: 173 k 🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 172 k 🇮🇱 Israel: 169 k 🇮🇹 Italy: 160 k 🇬🇧 UK: 141 k 🇪🇸 Spain: 122 k 🇦🇷 Argentina: 83 k 🇨🇦 Canada: 62 k 🇸🇬 Singapore: 51 k 🇨🇿 Czechia: 26 k 🇦🇹 Austria: 22 k 🇳🇮 Nicaragua: 12 k 🇮🇪 Ireland: 9.5 k 🇪🇪 Estonia: 7.1 k 🇱🇻 Latvia: 6.6 k 🇬🇾 Guyana: 3.4 k 🇸🇻 El Salvador: 2.6 k Active duty only, number of members According to International Institute for Strategic Studies

iPhone Users Are as Loyal as They Come According to Statista Consumer Insights, Apple beats smartphone competitors in terms of brand loyalty, with more than 90% of iPhone users in the U.S. saying that they’ll likely stick with Apple when it’s time to upgrade.

It is estimated that 8-12% of children worldwide were born to related consanguineous parents.

Consanguineous parents are couples who are biologically related by blood, typically as second cousins or closer, and share a common ancestor.

3 countries with the highest % of consanguineous marriages: 1. Pakistan: 61.2% 2. Kuwait: 54.3% 3. Qatar: 54.0%

In a room with 23 people, there's a 50/50 chance of at least two people having the same birthday In a room with 75 people, there's a 99.9% chance

The State of Democracy Across the World

World's Best Employers To determine the list, Forbes and Statista surveyed more than 300,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Survey respondents were asked where they worked via an open-ended question with an autofill option, and corporations were eligible for consideration if they employed more than 1,000 people and operated globally.

Number of Registered Guns by State (U.S.) 🇺🇸 Texas: 1.1M 🇺🇸 Florida: 631.8K 🇺🇸 California: 419.0K 🇺🇸 Virginia: 479.6K 🇺🇸 Georgia: 377.8K 🇺🇸 Pennsylvania: 295.5K 🇺🇸 Arkansas: 309.0K 🇺🇸 North Carolina: 252.4K 🇺🇸 Ohio: 245.8K 🇺🇸 Alabama: 224.3K 🇺🇸 Washington: 213.6K 🇺🇸 Colorado: 196.8K 🇺🇸 Tennessee: 192.8K 🇺🇸 Nevada: 174.8K 🇺🇸 Utah: 174.8K 🇺🇸 Indiana: 226.3K 🇺🇸 South Carolina: 149.3K 🇺🇸 Michigan: 150.0K 🇺🇸 Louisiana: 150.1K 🇺🇸 Minnesota: 137.8K 🇺🇸 Missouri: 137.5K 🇺🇸 Illinois: 139.4K 🇺🇸 Oregon: 127.1K 🇺🇸 New Mexico: 121.7K 🇺🇸 Oklahoma: 123.0K 🇺🇸 New Jersey: 115.4K 🇺🇸 Wisconsin: 118.1K 🇺🇸 South Dakota: 118.8K 🇺🇸 Arizona: 106.2K 🇺🇸 New York: 93.0K 🇺🇸 Connecticut: 93.3K 🇺🇸 Idaho: 97.5K 🇺🇸 Mississippi: 98.0K 🇺🇸 District of Columbia: 101.1K 🇺🇸 Wyoming: 84.5K 🇺🇸 New Hampshire: 84.2K 🇺🇸 Kansas: 82.3K 🇺🇸 Kentucky: 131.2K 🇺🇸 Iowa: 72.4K 🇺🇸 West Virginia: 63.5K 🇺🇸 Nebraska: 54.4K 🇺🇸 Montana: 56.1K 🇺🇸 Alaska: 36.1K 🇺🇸 North Dakota: 40.1K 🇺🇸 Massachusetts: 28.8K 🇺🇸 Maine: 154.4K 🇺🇸 Maryland: 48.0K 🇺🇸 Delaware: 7.9K 🇺🇸 Rhode Island: 4.9K 🇺🇸 Vermont: 11.6K 🇺🇸 Hawaii: 9.6K Texas led with the highest number of registered weapons at 1.1 million firearms. The entire record covers approximately 9.6 million registered weapons across 51 jurisdictions. Gun ownership in the U.S. is protected by the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution, which allows citizens to own firearms and form a militia if necessary. Source: Statista (May 2024)

The United States has become the world’s largest oil producer, by far. (Our World in Data)

🇯🇵 Japan’s annual births 2025: 705,809 2014: 1 million people 2004: 1.11 million people 1994: 1.23 million people 1984: 1.49 million people 1974: 2.03 million people

Same-sex Marriage: Where is it Legal?

Smartphone scrolling on toilet linked to higher hemorrhoid risk, raising risk of hemorrhoids by nearly 50%, from extra minutes spent sitting. 66% reported using phone on toilet. 37% stayed on toilet for more than 5 minutes. Most common reasons were to read news (54%) and use social media (44%).

You'd need to work 69 hours in Nigeria to earn what a Dutch worker makes in one.

Netflix Still Reigns Supreme in the U.S. Streaming Landscape

Too little sleep ages your organs. So does too much. A Nature study of ~500,000 people mapped sleep against 23 biological aging clocks across 17 organs (proteomics, metabolomics, MRI). Same result every time: a U-shaped curve. Fastest aging: under 6 hours or over 8. Slowest aging: about 6.4 - 7.8 hours.

Unemployment Rate 2026 Source: Eurostat, IMF Most recent data available: June 2026

Best Airlines in Europe 1. 🇹🇷 Turkish Airlines 2. 🇫🇷 Air France 3. 🇨🇭 Swiss International Air Lines 4. 🇬🇧 British Airways 5. 🇩🇪 Lufthansa 6. 🇬🇧 Virgin Atlantic 7. 🇪🇸 Iberia 8. 🇳🇱 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines 9. 🇦🇹 Austrian Airlines 10. 🇫🇮 Finnair Source: SKYTRAX, 2025

Women are More Often Worried About Their Financial Future Than Men According to a Statista Consumer Insights survey carried out between July 2025 - June 2026

Countries with the most airports 2026 🇺🇸 United States : 16,116 🇧🇷 Brazil : 5,297 🇦🇺 Australia : 2,257 🇲🇽 Mexico : 1,580 🇨🇦 Canada : 1,459 🇫🇷 France : 1,218 🇬🇧 United Kingdom : 1,057 🇷🇺 Russia : 905 🇩🇪 Germany : 840 🇮🇳 India : 487 Source: International Aviation Databases (2026)