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Minimum percentage of women required by law in Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council (an advisory council to the king and his cabinet): 20 (1)

Percentage of women currently serving in the United States Congress: 19.4 (2)

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Percentage of speaking roles for women in popular film (based on a study of 120 films from 11 countries released between 2010 and 2013): 31

Percentage of those films with a female protagonist: 23

Percentage of those films with a female director: 7 (3)

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Approximate change in Earth’s terrestrial wildlife population, 1970-2010: -39%

Approximate change in Earth’s marine wildlife population, 1970-2010: -39%

Approximate change in Earth’s freshwater wildlife population, 1970-2010: -76%

Approximate change in Earth’s human population, 1970-2010: +185% (4)

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Approximate population of New York City (as of 2013): 8,405,837 (5)

Approximate population of Hangzhou, China (as of 2010): 8,700,373 (6)

Approximate number of bikes in New York’s Citibike, the largest bike-sharing program in the United States: 6,000

Number of bikes in Hangzhou Public Bicycle, the largest program in the world: 69,750 (7)

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Amount of global new investment in renewable energy in 2004: $40 billion

Amount of global new investment in renewable energy in 2013: $214 billion

Total world capacity for production of solar power in 2004: 3.7 gigawatts

Total world capacity for production of solar power in 2013: 139 gigawatts (8)

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Number of known detainees in the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program: 119

Number of detainees determined by the Senate Intelligence Committee to have been wrongfully held: At least 26 (9)

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Number of American children who experienced homelessness in 2006: 1,555,369

Number of American children who experienced homelessness in 2013: 2,483,539 (10)

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Number of protests worldwide (as defined in a study by the Initiative for Policy Dialogue and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung New York Office) in 2006: 59

Number of protests worldwide in 2012: 159

Number of protests worldwide in the first six months of 2013: 112 (11)

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