Harper's Index
Median number of views a YouTube video had in 2006 : 10,262
In 2016 : 89
Average amount Microsoft spends each month assisting people who need to change their passwords : $2,000,000
Minimum number of US municipalities that have outlawed crossing the street while texting : 3
Percentage of teens who have received a “sext” : 27
Who have sent a sext : 15
Who have forwarded a sext without the original sender’s consent : 12
Maximum fine for public sexual harassment under a proposed French law : $3,681
Number of years since Belgium passed a law criminalizing sexism in public : 4
Number of people who have been convicted under that law : 1
Percentage of registered US voters who say that Donald Trump is a good role model for young people : 29
Of Americans who said the same of Bill Clinton in 1998 : 18
Average number of additional assaults that occurred in a city when it hosted a Trump campaign rally : 2.3
When it hosted a Hillary Clinton campaign rally : 0
Percentage of biographical Wikipedia pages that are about women : 17
Percentage of US political donors in 1990 who were women : 23
Today : 47
Minimum number of countries since 2012 that have changed their anthems’ lyrics to make them more gender inclusive : 2
Factor by which women who win parliamentary or mayoral elections are more likely to get divorced than women who lose : 2
Number of billionaires in the National People’s Congress of China : 45
Year in which China’s coal consumption is expected to peak : 2018
Number of countries whose first coal plants are being constructed with Chinese financing : 7
Number of minutes by which clocks ran late this spring following power disruptions in Serbia and Kosovo : 6
Number of countries in which clocks were affected : 26
Average factor by which a Seoul city-government employee works more overtime than a South Korean–government employee : 1.8
Time at which Seoul’s government shuts down computers on Friday evenings to force employees to stop working : 7:00
Percentage of US counties in which food stamps don’t cover the cost of three meals a day : 99
Percentage of black American men born into the wealthiest quintile who remain in that bracket as adults : 17
Of white American men : 39
Portion of trauma patients at hospitals nationwide who are admitted for gunshot wounds : 1/25
Of trauma patients at Stroger Hospital in Chicago who are : 3/10
Number of Navy medics who have been trained there since 2014 : 70
Percentage of US secondary-school teachers who were physically attacked by a student in the 2015–16 school year : 2
Of elementary-school teachers : 9
Number of job listings seeking pagan chaplains for UK prisons in February : 7
Percentage by which hamburgers outsold ham-and-butter baguette sandwiches in France last year : 20
Portion of Americans who have eaten a pint of ice cream in one sitting : 1/2
Portion of those who felt guilty afterward : 2/5
Who felt ill : 1/10
https://harpers.org/archive/2018/06/harpers-index-406/