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Proportion
of all deaths due to communal violence in last 50 years that have
taken place in villages, in per cent: 3.6
Proportion
of all deaths due to communal violence in Indian cities that take
place in 8 most riot-prone cities, in per cent: 50
Number
of pubs and bars in New Delhi: 125
Number of pubs and bars in Mumbai and Bangalore: 1,611 &
1,512
Percentage
by which average nominal monthly expenditure in urban India was
higher than that in rural India in 1983-84, indicating income
disparity between urban and rural areas: 38
Percentage
by which average nominal monthly expenditure in urban India was
higher than that in rural India in 1999-2000: 76
Proportion of urban middle class Indians who say they are very
religious, in per cent: 29
Proportion
of urban middle class Indians who say they are not religious, in
per cent: 9
Number out of every 100 Indian companies who say they have a
well-defined policy on human rights: 10
Number
out of every 100 Indian companies who say they have a well-defined
policy on gender, caste and religious equality: 35
Percentage
of Indian companies which are said to be family-owned: 80
Chances
that a fully family-owned business in India has survived beyond
the third generation: 7 in 100
Percentage
change in the number of Indian family-owned business houses among Business
Standard's annual ranking of top 100 companies between 1994
and 2001: -34
Length
of content in an average prime-time television family drama in
India that is said to contain violence unhealthy for child
viewing, in per cent: 55
Chances
Indian executives in the age group 24-50 years say they like to
spend their leisure time attending parties: 3 in 100
Chances
Indian executives in the age group 24-50 years say they like to
spend their leisure time sitting at home and watching TV with
their families: 55 in 100
Number
of states in India which reported a child sex ratio (females per
1,000 male children) below 880 in the 1991 general census: 2
Number
of states in India which reported a child sex ratio (females per
1,000 male children) below 880 in the 2001 general census: 5
Rank
of Scotland in terms of highest concentration of ‘unidentified
flying objects’ sightings on the planet: 1
Average
number of 'unidentified flying objects' spotted in Scotland every
year: 300
Number of children from developing countries that were adopted by
American couples in 2001: 19,000
Estimated
value of US adoption market in terms of cost of adopting a child,
in million dollars: 400-600
Number
of children from developing countries that were adopted by couples
in Western countries including Israel, Spain, France, Italy and
Ireland, in 2001: 20,000
Rank of Pakistan, Iran, Germany and USA worldwide in terms of
number of refugees and asylum-seekers as at the end-2001:
1/2/3/4
Rank
of Afghanistan and Sri Lanka worldwide in terms of number of
internally-displaced persons as at the end-2001: 1/2
Number
of world's 25 civil wars that have been going on for more than 10
years: 17
Proportion
of the countries at civil war that are ranked in the bottom half
of UN's Human Development Index, in per cent: 60
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