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Proportion
of India's land area affected by salinisation, water-logging and
erosion in 1947, in per cent: 34
Proportion of India's land area affected by salinisation,
water-logging and erosion in 1997, in per cent: 58
Estimated proportion of India's land area likely to be affected by
salinisation, water-logging and erosion in 2047, in per cent: 80
Number
of schools, colleges, hospitals, dispensaries, etc. in India, in
million: 2.1
Places of worship in India, in million: 2.4
Total
number of commissioned officers in three Indian services, Army,
Air Force and Navy: 51,400
Number out of these commissioned officers that are women: 1,120
Total
number of men and women who have climbed atop Mount Everest so
far: 1,202
Number out of these men and women who are Indians: 64
Number
of cellular phones in Chandigarh, the first city in India to have
more cell phones than land lines, in lakhs as of June 2003: 1.47
Number of land lines in Chandigarh as of June 2003, in lakhs: 1.42
Percentage
change in the average number of years spent in school by SC/ST,
Muslim and Hindu girls respectively aged 5-14 years, between 1983
and 1999: +140/67/56
Percentage change in the average number of years spent in school
by SC/ST, Muslim and Hindu boys respectively aged 5-14 years,
between 1983 and 1999: +34/37/23
Average
number of holidays for a central government employee in a year in
India: 201
Average number of working days for a central government employee
in a year in India: 164
Average
number of national holidays in India every year, in days: 23.8
Average number of national holidays in Japan, USA and the UK every
year, in days: 14.8/9.2/7.8
Estimated
amount needed for a person to climb Mount Everest, in US dollars: 65,000
Estimated amount of junk that has accumulated over the years on
the slope of Mount Everest, in tonnes: 100
Number
out of every 100 British women who say they have been raped: 5
Number out of every 100 cases of rapes in Britain which are
reported to police: 20
Percentage
of people in Indonesia, Lebanon and UAE, and Pakistan who say they
like American movies and television: 77/64/62
Percentage of people in France who say they like American movies
and television: 47
Proportion
of land in American cities that is occupied by the car parking
lots, in per cent: 40
Proportion
of programming on CNN International that was American in content
in 1996, in per cent: 70
Proportion of programming on CNN International that was American
in content in 2001, in per cent: 8
Number
of couples studied by James Murray, professor of mathematics at
the University of Washington, Seatle to develop a mathematical
formula to forecast a happy marriage: 700
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