A column of current statistics selected especially for Christian communicators

Ratio of lawyers to the total U.S. population: 1:323

Ratio of ministers to the total U.S. population: 1:714

Percentage of U.S. citizens who favor state restrictions that would require parental consent before a teenager has an abortion: 72

Who favor restrictions that would require doctors to inform patients about alternatives: 81

Pounds of trash produced by an average American, per day, in 1960: 2.9

Today: 5

Estimated cost of raising a first child, born in 1988, to age 17: $176,674

Percentage of Americans who are generally satisfied with their jobs: 68

With their financial situation: 78

With their family life: 71

Percentage of the workday that Americans spend goofing off: 32

Number of U.S. Sunday school students each week: 36 million

Total length of all U.S. interstate highways, in miles: 44,328

Total length of all roads built during the Roman Empire, in miles: 49,000

Percentage of U.S. mail that was third-class (commonly called ...