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Go Figure

Recent statistics on 100 years of Gideon Bibles, charismatic Catholics, and other subjects.

1.4 billion   Bibles and New Testaments distributed by Gideons International since July 1908.

25%   People who say they read the Bibles in their hotel rooms.

2,300   Estimated people potentially exposed to each hotel Bible over its six-year lifespan, according to Gideon research.

(Source: The Gideons)

45%   Hispanic Catholics in the U.S. who say they have received or witnessed a divine healing.

21%   Non-Hispanic Catholics who say this.

29%   U.S. Catholics who are Latino.

(Source: Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life)

37%   Americans who say they worry about global warming “a great deal.”

35%   Americans who said this in 1989.

(Source: The Gallup Poll)

53%   Americans who say they are middle class.

41%   Americans who earn less than $20,000 a year who say this.

33%   Americans who earn more than $150,000 a year who say this.

(Source: Pew Research Center)

Related Elsewhere:

See our earlier Go Figure postings from May 2008, April 2008, March 2008, February 2008, January 2008, December 2007, November 2007, October 2007, September 2007, August 2007, July 2007, June 2007, May 2007, and earlier issues.

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