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Shein in Rank 3 of Biggest U.S. Online Fashion Retailers Amazon and Walmart are the biggest online fashion retailers in the United States, according to website ECDB. Both retailers sell all sorts of goods online and in brick-and-mortar stores and according to the data, $12.3 billion and $8.9 billion worth of apparel net sales was among that in 2023. After these two established U.S. brands, there is a relative newcomer in rank 3 of the biggest online fashion retailers in the country: Chinese company Shein. Pedelling often-criticized fast fashion at rock-bottom prices, the store specialized in trendy fashion products and offering new items almost continuously. With this popular strategy, Shein, which only launched in the U.S. around 2017, has pulled past U.S. legacy retailer Macy's as well as Nike, which came in rank 4 and 5. The companies had 2023 fashion net sales of $6.4 billion and $4.5 billion, respectively. Source: Statista

Majority of Americans Have Struggled With Mental Health Having long been stigmatized as a sign of weakness, mental health problems have become much less of a taboo in recent years. The pandemic, with its unique set of challenges, accelerated that trend, as it not only caused a spike in symptoms of anxiety or depression, but also led to more people opening up about their problems. In a recent Statista survey, 3 in 4 American adults reported that they have struggled with mental health in some form or other in the 12 months preceding the survey, making an open discourse about mental health issues all the more important. According to the findings from Statista Consumer Insights, 52 and 49 percent of U.S. adults have experienced stress or anxiety in the past year, respectively, up from 46 and 38 percent in 2019. 29 percent of respondents reported having felt loneliness or social isolation in the past year, while 34 percent stated that they have gone through a depressive phase. Just 22 percent of respondents reported not having experienced any of the issues listed above, underlining how common mental health issues really are. Source: Statista

Biggest Markets for Electric Two-Wheelers and Three-Wheelers Despite motorized rickshaws being a popular symbol associated with India, the country only became the biggest seller of electric three-wheelers last year. Previously, China - a quick adopter of electric mobility in general - had seen higher annual three-wheeler EV sales. However, in 2023, only 320,000 were newly sold in the country, down from 350,000 in 2022. According to the IEA Global EV Report 2024, 3W EV sales picked up in India, rising by almost two-thirds in just one year to 580,000. There are few other markets for electric three-wheelers in the world outside of Asia, with only Europe selling any sizable number in 2023 at 24,000, up from 5,000 in 2022. The continent has its own traditional three-wheelers originating in Italy and elsewhere, which are not very widespread, however. The market for electric two-wheelers is bigger globally at almost 8 million sold last year. Here, China remains the dominant country with sales reaching almost 6 million (and India in second place at just short of 1 million). The market has shrunk from a high of 11 million vehicles sold in 2021. Again, loses have come from China as other countries expanded use. Here, lag from Covid-era supply chain disruptions has continued to hamper growth into 2023. Source: Statista

Where Women Are Most Likely to Be Your Boss People working in Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Jamaica are most likely to have a female boss. This is according to data by the International Labor Organization. The latest data from 2022 and 2023 shows that in Burkina Faso and Nigeria, between 67 percent and 70 percent of all managers are women. Jamaica and Botswana are the only other countries with available data listing more female than male managers, at around 60 percent and 52 percent, respectively. More countries with a high share of women in managerial positions are the Philippines and Caribbean island nation Saint Lucia as well as Jordan and Zambia. Despite being in the top 10 of the countries with the most female managers (out of around 100 where this data was available for recent years), neither of the four nations has achieved gender parity in managerial positions, speaking volumes to the huge gender gaps that still persist for women in the workplace. Women's participation in business and entrepreneurship is strong in Africa, explaining why the continent boasts many female managers. However, in Africa and elsewhere, women managers are more often than not restricted to fields deemed female-centric, for example human resources, administration, finance, marketing or public relations - areas the ILO defines as business support functions. The outsourcing industry in the Philippines providing such services has, for example, been tied to the high share of women managers in the country. In nations with less developed formal labor markets, founding and running one's own company is also essential for many women. They therefore often head smaller businesses and those that they have founded themselves, driving up the number of female managers in developing countries. Source: Statista

5% of Americans are Digital Nomads In 2023 as many as 17.3 million U.S. citizens considered themselves to be digital nomads. This number has more than doubled since 2019, most certainly supported by the increase in remote work opportunities since the COVID-19 pandemic. Those people who can live the digital nomad lifestyle are most likely to be in professions that have a lower level of human contact in their day-to-day. Professions such as IT, finance, and communications are more suited to remote work arrangements, whereas retail and hospitality jobs with high face-to-face customer contact are less likely to support the digital nomad lifestyle.This chart shows the share of U.S citizens who considerthemselves to be digital nomads from 2019 to 2023. Source: Statista

Malaria Is Still Endemic in 85 Countries World Malaria Day, observed every year on April 25, is an occasion to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for malaria prevention and control. In 2024, the theme as designated by the World Health Organization is "Accelerate the Fight Against Malaria for a More Equitable World". For a fact, the world is behind in the fight against malaria. The WHO's goal to reduce the number of countries where the disease is endemic to 75 by 2025 will likely not be reached. In 2022, malaria was still active in 85 countries, down from 95 in 2015. As this infographic shows, while progress has been made over the last two decades, there is still an incredible amount of work to be done. Globally in 2000 there were a total of 108 endemic countries. By 2022 this had dropped to 85, yet nearly half of the world's population was still classified as 'at risk' of malaria. There were an estimated 608,000 deaths caused by the disease in 2022 - down from 897,000 in 2000. However, cases were still up that year - from 244 million in 2021 to 249 million in 2022. Of these cases, half occurred in just four countries, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Mozambique. The countries newly declared malaria free were Capo Verde in 2024 as well as Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and Belize in 2023. In South and Eastern Asia, malaria deaths decreased by 77 percent since 2000, compared to just around 30 percent globally. India recorded almost 3.4 million cases, while local funding for the disease grew. Source: Statista

E-Books Still No Match for Printed Books While UNESCO's General Conference probably thought of ink on paper when it first celebrated the event in 1995, some 21st century book lovers have moved onto enjoying the pastime in the electronic form. In the following chart, we compare just how popular e-books are versus those in print. According to data from Statista’s Market Insights: Media & Advertising, e-book penetration still trails that of printed books in the vast majority of countries around the world. In the United States for example, 20 percent of the population are estimated to have purchased an e-book last year, compared to 30 percent who bought a printed book. China is the only country of those studied that saw the opposite trend, with only 24 percent of people having bought a printed book in the 12 months prior to the survey, while around 27 percent of people bought an e-book in that time frame. Looking at forecasts for the book market on a worldwide scale, Statista analysts predict that while e-books have grown in popularity, they will not be the final nail in the coffin of printed books but rather a complementary product that should ultimately benefit the publishing industry. Source: Statista

The Impact of Terrorism Around the World According to the Global Terrorism Index 2024, a report by the Institute for Economics and Peace measuring the impact of terrorism around the world, deaths from terrorism rose to 8,352 globally in 2023, marking a 22 percent increase from the previous year. That increase came despite a 23 percent drop in terrorist attacks, with fell to 3,350 in 2023. At the same time, terrorism has become more concentrated, as the number of countries recording at least one death from terrorism fell to 41 in 2023, down from 57 in 2015, when deaths from terrorism peaked. Last year, 10 countries accounted for 87 percent of global deaths from terrorism, with Burkina Faso, Israel and Mali alone accounting for more than 45 percent of fatalities. This infographic, based on the 'Global Terrorism Index 2024', provides an overview of how much different countries and regions have been affected by terrorism over the past five years. The Institute for Economics and Peace takes four indicators into account: the number of terrorist attacks as well as the number of fatalities, injuries and hostages taken in such attacks. It looks at a five-year period, whereby recent incidents are weighted more strongly than those further in the past. Interestingly, the 2024 index marks the first time in the report's 13-year history that neither Afghanistan nor Iraq have been top of the list. Instead, Burkina Faso is now the country most severely impacted by terrorism, which is indicative of a broader trend, which saw the epicenter of terrorism shift from the Middle East into Sub-Saharan Africa, with Mali, Niger and Nigeria also high on the list. Source: Statista

Art Exhibitions & Museums Garner Little Interest? Today is World Art Day, a day dedicated to promoting the development and enjoyment of art. According to UNESCO, "art nurtures creativity, innovation and cultural diversity for all peoples across the globe and plays an important role in sharing knowledge and encouraging curiosity and dialogue."According to data from a Statista Consumer Insights survey, a fairly low share of the population bought tickets to museums or art exhibitions in the past 12 months. Of the countries selected for this chart, China had the highest share of respondents having purchased entrance tickets at 16 percent of online respondents, followed by India (15 percent) and Italy (14 percent). Countries such as Germany and Brazil had even lower shares at just 6 percent and 7 percent, respectively.This chart shows the share of respondents who bought tickets for museums/art exhibitions in the last 12 months (in %). Source: Statista

How the Income of India's Richest 10% Surged The gap between the rich and poor is getting bigger in India. According to a new report by the research group World Inequality Lab, the per-adult pre-tax national income share of those in the 1 percent of the country's highest earners amounted to 22.6 percent in 2022, while that of the bottom 50 percent of earners stood at just 15 percent. The following chart looks at income inequality dynamics in India between 1951 and 2022, with the population split into the bottom 50 percent, middle 40 percent and top 10 percent of the country. It shows that inequality declined post-independence until the 1980s, with the share of national income going to the top 10 percent dropping from 37 percent in 1951 to 30 percent in 1982. The report writers say this decline was likely the consequence of the “broadly socialist policy agenda pursued by the Indian government till the 1980s”, citing the nationalization of rail, air, banking and oil sectors, as well as strong regulation of markets and high tax progressivity. They explain that from the early 1980s, the Indian government then started to introduce a broad range of economic reforms that led to liberalization in 1991. With this, the top 10 percent's share started to increase, hitting nearly 60 percent from around 2016 onwards. The middle 40 percent of the nation had received a share of national income that was higher than that of the top 10 percent up until the 2000s. That was until 2001, when a switch then took place, as the middle 40 percent received 38.9 percent of total income and the top 10 percent received 41 percent of total income. By 2022, this diverging path had come to 27.3 percent for the middle 40 percent and a high 57.7 percent for the top 10 percent. Reasons for the shares of lower income brackets remaining depressed include a “lack of quality broad-based education, focused on the masses and not just the elites”, as well as India’s inability to “pull more of its workforce away from agriculture". Source: Statista