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The U.S. ranks 85th in boys going to grade school

6 October 2010 Leave a comment

According to the World Health Organization, between 2000 and 2009, the United States had a net enrollment rate for males in primary school of 91%, which makes the United States tied for eighty-fifth in that category with several other countries–Albania, Croatia, Czech Republic, India, Samoa, Slovakia, Suriname, and Uzbekistan. Several other countries–Burundi, Georgia, Iran, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania–tied for first, with 100% of boys going to primary school.

The country with the lowest reported enrollment rate for boys in primary school is Sudan, at 43%.

The U.S. ranks 35th in animal fat

27 March 2009 Leave a comment

According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Americans eat six kilograms of animal fat per person per year, enough to make the  United States tied for thirty-fifth in that category, along with Australia, the Bahamas, Fiji, Samoa, and the Seychelles. Hungary ranked first, consuming twenty-seven kilograms of animal fat per person per year.

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The U.S. ranks 15th in avocados

17 February 2009 1 comment

According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, in 2007 the United States ranked fifteenth in terms of avocado production. Samoa ranked first.

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