Try out our new infinity stats stack — a collection of the most fascinating, weird, and important numbers from around the (rest of) world.
Stat of the day
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$72How much it costs unvetted drivers to buy a verified Bolt ride-sharing account in NigeriaThe Estonian ride-sharing company has come under fire for a recent spike in crimes against passengers in Nigeria, including robbery, sexual assault, and harassment. An investigation by Rest of World found that in spite of these crimes, some Bolt drivers are selling their verified accounts on Facebook groups to third-party drivers who have not received any background checks or vetting. Some have even fashioned a full-fledged business, recruiting people to create driver accounts on Bolt purely for resale.
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79%The percentage of young people in the Arab world who get their news from social mediaThe number of young people getting news from TV and newspapers continues to decrease, according to the Arab Youth Survey, an annual survey of 4,000 youths aged 18 to 24 across 17 Arab states and territories by research consultancy PSB.
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55The number of BeiDou satellites China has launched to rival the U.S.-owned GPS systemTwenty-six years after the creation of its satellite navigation system, China launched the last satellite of BeiDou’s third-generation system. It’s competing with GPS, EU’s Galileo, and Russia’s GLONASS in providing global positioning and communication services.
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0.23%The percentage of hate speech posts that Facebook has taken down in AfghanistanHate speech is one of the top abuse categories on Facebook in Afghanistan, according to a Facebook employee, but the company has taken action against just a tiny fraction of instances. That’s partly because removing the posts depends on a “seriously scant” list of slurs in the languages spoken in Afghanistan.
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500,000How many copies Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily printed the day after police raided its newsroom for allegedly violating the national security lawThat’s more than five times as many copies as are printed for average daily circulation. Reporters for the paper wrote articles on their mobile phones after desktop computers were seized by police. Authorities froze about $2.3 million belonging to Apple Daily, which police say was publishing editorials encouraging foreign countries to sanction Hong Kong and China.
