The Numbers Game

Workplace Casualties
There were 177 workplace deaths last year, of which one was in
finance and one was in IT.
Belarus
17.5L
Getting
it On
According to a 2008 survey,
Hongkongers have sex a
measly 3.9 times a month.
Come on, Hong Kong!
You can do better than that!
3.9
times
per month
Phones
228.7%
Hong Kong’s mobile
penetration rate—meaning
each of us has at least two phones. Explains all the
taxi drivers, doesn’t it?
Hong Kong
2.83L
China
6.7L
Jail Time
8,438
Number of people
incarcerated in Hong
Kong (including those on remand).
That's 115 people per 100k in prison, ranking
us at a pretty good #134 in the world.
But our percentage of female prisoners
is 20.5%—making us world #1…
2 phones
per person
Chungking
Mansions
Boozing
18.3 million liters
Total pure alcohol consumption of Hong Kong last
year, or 2.83 liters per person. That puts us well
below world #1 Belarus at 17.5 liters per person
per year—and China, at 6.7 liters. We suspect that
HK Magazine readers are pulling the average up,
though…
Public
Transport
Female prisoners
#1globally
Global
Rankings
20%
Percentage of the
phones in use in
Sub-Saharan Africa
which have passed
through Chungking
Mansions.
382 million Number
of people
who used public transport in March this year:
that's 12.3 million per day, meaning that each
of us uses public transport 1.68 times daily.
Or, more realistically, most of us use it twice
to commute and the
tai tais and tycoons
have drivers.
1.68
times
daily
Global
Competitiveness
Global
Longest
Working
Hours #1
(50 hours per week!)
Global
Happiness
#74
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