Snapshots.

Major Religions of the World Christianity 32.9% Judaism 0.2% Islam 19.9% Sikhism 0.4% Hinduism 13.3% Chinese folk religions 6.3% Buddhism 5.9% Ethnic religions 3.8% Nonreligious or atheist 14.9% Other 2.4% SOURCE: ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA 2004 BOOK OF THE YEAR Note: Table made from pie chart. Wealthiest/Poorest Nations (by per capita GDP in U.S. dollars) WEALTHIEST Luxembourg $55,100 Norway $37,800 United States $37,800 San Marino $34,600 Switzerland $32,700 POOREST East Timor $500 Sierra Leone $500 Somalia $500 Burundi $600 Tanzania $600 SOURCE: THE WORLD FACTBOOK 2004, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Top 10 Soda Drinkers (gallons consumed per capita in 2003) United States 1 51.7 Mexico 2 33.3 Norway 3 32.2 Ireland 4 32.0 Canada 5 30.9 Belgium 6 28.9 Australia 7 27.3 Netherlands 8 26.4 Chile 9 26.3 Spain 10 26.0 SOURCE: EUROMONITOR Languages Spoken by the Most People as "First Language" (millions of speakers) Mandarin Chinese 874 Hindi 366 English 341 Spanish 322 Bengali 207 Portuguese 176 Russian 167 Japanese 125 German 100 Korean 78 French 77 Wu Chinese 77 Javanese 75 Yue Chinese 71 Telugu 69 SOURCE: ETHNOLOGUE VOLUME I, LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD, 14TH EDITION Life Expectancy at Birth (average lifespan in years for both males & females) HIGHEST Andorra 83.50 San Marino 81.53 Singapore 81.53 Japan 81.04 Switzerland 80.31 LOWEST Bostwana 30.76 Zambia 35.18 Angola 36.79 Lesotho 36.81 Mozambique 37.10 The U.S. ranks 48th with a life expectancy of 77.43 years. SOURCE: THE WORLD FACTBOOK 2004, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY U.S. Foreign-Born Population: Top 5 Countries of origin (in thousands) 1960 Italy 1,256 Germany 989 Canada 953 Great Britain 764 Poland 747 2000 Mexico 7,841 Philippines 1,222 China & Hong Kong 1,066 India 1,007 Cuba 952 SOURCE: BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Most Popular Google[TM] Searches in 2003 (in the U.S.) 1. Britney Spears 2. Harry Potter 3. Matrix 4. Shakira 5. David Beckham 6. 50 Cent 7. Iraq 8. Lord of the Rings 9. Kobe Bryant 10. Tour de France SOURCE: GOOGLE.COM (This is an open-book test.)

  1. -- is the religion of nearly 6 percent of the world's 6.4 billion people.

  2. People who live in -- rank 10th in the world in their consumption of --.

  3. If you divide Switzerland's per capita GDP by two and then add $150, you'll, get the per capita GDP of the Czech Republic, a country not shown in "Snapshots." What is the per capita GDP of the Czech...

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