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  2. List of countries by Human Development Index - Wikipedia

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    The Human Development Report includes data for all 193 member states of the United Nations, [16] as well as Hong Kong SAR and the State of Palestine. However, the Human Development Index is not calculated for two UN member states: DPR Korea (North Korea) and Monaco, only some components of the index are calculated for these two countries.

  3. The 1% Club (American game show) - Wikipedia

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    The 1% Club is an American game show, with its setup identically based on the British game show of the same name.Contestants are given a very short amount time to solve brain teaser questions, which each question getting significantly more difficult as the game continues, as statistically a smaller percentage of people according to the producers, answered that particular question correctly.

  4. Income inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, average market income was $15,600 for the lowest quintile and $280,300 for the highest quintile. The degree of inequality accelerated within the top quintile, with the top 1% at $1.8 million, approximately 30 times the $59,300 income of the middle quintile.

  5. Human Development Index - Wikipedia

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    The Human Development Index ( HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system ), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development. A country scores a higher level of HDI ...

  6. Gender pay gap - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The gender pay gap or gender wage gap is the average difference between the remuneration for men and women who are working. Women are generally found to be paid less than men. There are two distinct numbers regarding the pay gap: non-adjusted versus adjusted pay gap.

  7. Demographics of the world - Wikipedia

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    Over 8,000,000,000 (estimated) Fertility rate. 2.27 (2021) Earth has a human population of over 8 billion as of 2024, with an overall population density of 50 people per km 2 (130 per sq. mile). Nearly 60% of the world's population lives in Asia, with almost 2.8 billion in the countries of India and China combined.

  8. Population growth - Wikipedia

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    Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group. Actual global human population growth amounts to around 83 million annually, or 1.1% per year. [2] The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to 8 billion in 2024. [3] The UN projected population to keep growing, and estimates have put the ...

  9. Human genetic variation - Wikipedia

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    Human genetic variation is the genetic differences in and among populations. There may be multiple variants of any given gene in the human population ( alleles ), a situation called polymorphism . No two humans are genetically identical. Even monozygotic twins (who develop from one zygote) have infrequent genetic differences due to mutations ...