What it takes to make an iPhone: By the numbers

Apple's glamorous gadgets are assembled by an army of 1.2 million underpaid, overworked Chinese employees. Here, a glimpse at their grueling factory lives What exactly does it take to get an Apple product into your hands? This week, ABC's Nightline took viewers on an insider tour of China's Foxconn plants, where Apple phones and tablets are made — and where,  says Joshua Topolsky at The Verge, the hours are controversially long, the wages are low, and the work is brutally monotonous. Here, a look inside the world of Apple manufacturing, by the numbers:

141
Steps required to make an iPhone

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24
Hours of labor it takes to manufacture the phone

325
Sets of hands it takes to make a single iPad

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5
Days it takes to make a single iPad

$1.78
Hourly wage of new Foxconn employees, according to ABC's report

$2.18
Hourly wage of 75 percent of Foxconn's workforce

1.2 million
Workers employed by Foxconn

18
Typical age of Foxconn employees

12
The average shift, in hours, for Foxconn workers

7
Seconds it takes to complete a single step in the manufacturing process. "We are extremely tired, with tremendous pressure," one worker said. "We work faster even than the machines."

$17.50
Monthly rent Foxconn employees pay to secure sleeping space in a dorm room. Each room sleeps six to eight people.

$0.70
Price each Foxconn employee pays per meal

$12.50 to $30
Approximate cost of labor for a single iPhone

$199
Starting retail price for the iPhone 4S

$650
Approximate revenue each iPhone generates for Apple, according to Horace Dediu at Asymco

37 million
iPhones sold in the last quarter of 2011

$97.6 billion
Apple's cash on hand

Sources: Apple Insider (2), ASYMCO, New York Times (2), TUAW, The Verge, VentureBeat

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Adele's 'phenomenal' year-long chart domination: By the numbers

A year after its U.S. release, 21 is once again the country's top-selling album — helping Adele break Whitney Houston's 20-year-old record Adele's "phenomenal" success shows no sign of ebbing. A full 12 months after its release, Adele's Grammy-winning 21 is still smashing records and topping the Billboard charts. Want proof? Read on:

7.3 million
Copies of 21 sold in the U.S.

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2.34
Percent of the U.S. population that owns a copy of 21, as per the U.S. Census Bureau's estimate of the current population

18 million
Copies of 21 sold worldwide

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2 million
Digital copies of 21 sold on iTunes, making it the first album to hit that milestone

3
Adele singles currently occupying the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart: "Set Fire to the Rain" (2), "Rolling in the Deep" (5), and "Someone Like You" (7). She's the first artist in Hot 100 history to accomplish the feat. All three tracks have previously hit number one.

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52
Weeks that Adele's 21 has been out in the U.S. "The album has never left the Top 10 in its entire chart run," says Keith Caulfield at Billboard. Its low-point came in December 2011, when it fell to number 7.

21
Weeks that 21 spent at number one, a new record for an album by a female artist

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20
Weeks that Whitney Houston's soundtrack to The Bodyguard spent at number one, the previous record for a female artist

20
Years that Houston held the record

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7
Albums in Billboard history to have spent more weeks at number one than 21

54
Weeks that the West Side Story soundtrack topped the chart, the record for any album

37
Weeks that Michael Jackson's Thriller spent at number one, the record for an album by a male artist

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730,000
Copies of 21 that were sold last week following Adele's performance and six-trophy sweep at the Grammy Awards

207
Increase, in percent, of 21's weekly sales after the Grammys. "That's the largest post-show boost in the 54-year history of the awards," says Jim Farber at New York's Daily News.

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114
Increase, in percent, in sales of Adele's debut album, 19, following the singer's Grammy domination. The 87,000 copies sold gave 19 its best week ever, and put it in fourth place on this week's chart. "Don't be surprised if both 21 and 19 end up outselling many high-profile new releases in 2012," says Grady Smith at Entertainment Weekly.

Sources: Billboard (2, 3), Daily News, Entertainment Weekly, MTV, Music Week, Reuters, Wrap

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The silent rise of hepatitis C: By the numbers

More than 3 million Americans are infected with the potentially fatal liver disease — and half of them don't even know it Hepatitis C is officially more deadly to U.S. adults than HIV is, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control. Health experts are quite pleased with the country's falling HIV rates, but warn that these new figures prove the need for expanded screening methods for hepatitis C, a liver disease commonly spread through shared needles. Here, a look at the rise of America's new "silent" killer, by the numbers:

3.2 million
Americans infected with hepatitis C

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50
Percent of those Americans who don't know they have the disease

2/3
Ratio of infected Americans who are baby boomers. The spread "has a lot do do with casual needle injection-drug use back in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s," says Amy Norton at Reuters.

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1/33
Ratio of Americans born between 1945 and 1964 who have hepatitis C

18,000
New hepatitis C infections per year

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75 to 85
Percentage of hepatitis C infections that become chronic, potentially causing "serious diseases like cirrhosis (scarring of the liver) and liver cancer," says Norton.

15,100
Americans killed by hepatitis C in 2007, the most recent year for which data is available

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12,700
Americans killed by HIV in 2007

82,000
Estimated deaths that could be prevented if all Americans born between 1945 and 1965 agreed to a one-time hepatitis C screening, according to the CDC. "Most people don't know they're infected with hepatitis C until decades later," says Rita Rubin at Web MD, "when routine blood tests uncover liver damage caused by the virus over time." 

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$2,900
Cost of screening an adult for hepatitis C

45
Percent of hepatitis C patients who are cured if treated with two generic medicines, interferon and ribavirin

70 
Percent of hepatitis C patients who are cured if two recently approved drugs, Incivek and Victrelis, are added to the regimen

$50,000
Cost of the Incivek treatment

$26,000 to $48,000
Cost of the Victrelis treatment

$100,000
Low-end cost of a liver transplant

Sources: Associated Press, Reuters, Web MD

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The future of smartphone growth: By the numbers

In a few short years, Earth will likely be home to more smartphones and tablets than human beings The mobile computers in our pockets are getting more powerful by the day. And by 2016, there could be more suped-up smartphones and tablets than there are humans. That's according to new projections from tech titan Cisco. Here, a look at Cisco's vision of future smartphone growth, by the numbers: 

7.3 billion
Estimated world population by 2016, according to the United Nations

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10 billion
Estimated number of smartphones and tablets used worldwide by 2016, according to Cisco

1.4
Mobile gadgets for every person on Earth in 2016

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490 million
Smartphones sold in 2011

50
Factor by which traffic from smartphones will increase by 2016

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62
Factor by which traffic from tablets will increase by 2016

71
Percent of mobile traffic dedicated to watching videos on portable devices by 2016, a 25-fold increase from today

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130
Exabytes of worldwide data traffic in 2016. That's the rough equivalent of 33 billion DVDs, 4.3 quadrillion mp3 files, or 813 quadrillion text messages.

1,829
Average smartphone connection speed, in bits per second, in 2012

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5,244
Average smartphone connection speed, in bits per second, in 2016

200
Average high-speed internet connection speed, in bits per second, in 2000

Sources: CNN, eWeek, InformationWeek, Mashable, ZDNet

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The Jeremy Lin phenomenon: 'Linsanity' by the numbers

After leading the Knicks to their seventh straight victory, the 23-year-old, Harvard-educated sensation's name alone is worth $14 million — and counting With the New York Knicks' 100-85 victory over the Sacramento Kings at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night, "Linsanity" officially hit a fever pitch. Over the last two weeks, the breakout point guard has led the formerly-struggling Knicks to seven straight wins — and secured his status as a bona fide phenomenon. The 23-year-old Harvard grad is the first American-born player of Taiwanese or Chinese descent to play in the NBA, and he's drawn comparisons to the NFL's Tim Tebow because of his devout Christianity and unlikely success. Here, a guide to the buzziest player in sports, by the numbers:

7
Consecutive games won by the Knicks since Lin came out of nowhere to lead the team

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136
Points scored by Lin in his first five starts, the most by any player since the NBA and ABA merged in 1976

26.8
Lin's points-per-game average for the first six games in the Knicks' winning streak, an "eye-popping" figure, says Ian Begley at ESPN. Lin scored just 10 points during Wednesday's win against the Kings, but "his 13 assists prove he can run the Knicks' offense."

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30
Turnovers Lin committed in his first five NBA starts — also a record. This is only "a minor linterruption to Linsanity," says Juliet Spies-Gans at The Harvard Crimson.

$3,919
Top price for a ticket to Friday's Knicks game against the New Orleans Hornets at Madison Square Garden, according to TicketsNow.com

$183
Minimum price for a ticket to Friday's game, according to TicketsNow.com. Before Lin's streak began, a ticket "could be had for as low as $47 on Craigslist," says Alison Bowen at Metro.

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70
Surge in TV ratings, in percent, for Knicks games since "Linsanity" began

$50 million
Amount Lin is expected to boost the Knicks' revenue by next season

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$14 million
Value of Lin's name as a brand, according to Forbes — a number that is climbing

349,124
Twitter followers Lin has on his @JLin7 account

28,505
Twitter followers he had on February 1

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37,000
Twitter followers he picked up Tuesday night, following his last-second three-pointer against the Toronto Raptors, a tie-breaking shot that won the game for the Knicks

850,000
Followers Lin has picked up on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter

8
Consecutive days that Lin has appeared on the front or back cover (or both) of the New York Post, typically with a headline like "Lincredible!" or "May the best man Lin"

650
Percent increase in searches for the Knicks on Google in the last week. "About half of the increase has come from Taiwan," says Roger Yu and Michael McCarthy at USA Today.

550
Percent increase in traffic to NYKnicks.com and KnicksNow.com from Feb. 5 to Feb. 12, the highest weekly increase ever

3
Search terms related to Jeremy Lin — "knicks," "new york knicks," and "lin" — in the Top 20 of Google Trends on Thursday morning. On Wednesday morning, those three search terms were all in the Top 10.

$1,500
Cost of a Lin autograph on eBay. Before his surge in popularity, the typical price was $29.

168,000
Pieces of merchandise that sporting goods retailer Modell's has ordered for its flagship store in Times Square with "Lin" or "Linsanity" written on them

Sources: ABC News, CBS News, CNBC, ESPN, Bangkok Post, Forbes, Google Trends, Harvard Crimson, Metro, New York Post, TicketsNow.com, Twitter, TwitterCounter, USA Today (2)

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America's 'zombie voter' problem: By the numbers

A new study finds that millions of the names on U.S. voter rolls appear in more than one state ... or on tombstones The nation's voter-registration system is a wreck, according to a new report from the Pew Center on the States. Millions of invalid registrations remain on the books, including an "army of (potential) zombie voters" who remained registered long after they died. "Voter registration is the gateway to participating in our democracy," but the country's "antiquated, paper-based systems are plagued with errors and inefficiencies," says Pew's David Becker. "These problems waste taxpayer dollars, undermine voter confidence, and fuel partisan disputes over the integrity of our elections." Here, a look at the problem, by the numbers:

1.8 million
Deceased Americans whose voter registration remains active

2.75 million
People registered in more than one state

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68,725
Voters registered in three states

1,807
Voters registered in more than three states

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51 million
Americans who are eligible to vote, but are not registered

12 million
People registered under addresses that are old or have errors severe enough that mailings are unlikely to reach them

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24 million
Voter registrations that are inaccurate or no longer valid — nearly 13 percent of the names currently on voter rolls nationwide

76
Percentage of eligible adults who are registered to vote in the U.S.

93
Percentage of eligible adults who are registered to vote in Canada

$4.13
Amount Oregon spent per voter to process registrations in 2008. On average, local election offices spent a third of their budgets to register voters, according to a 2001 study.

$0.35
Amount Canada spends to register each voter

Sources: Gawker, Pew Center on the States, Politico, The Hill

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The Empire State Building's $1 billion IPO: By the numbers

Want to own a piece of iconic Manhattan real estate? You're in luck "Soon, investors can take after King Kong and grab a piece of the Empire State Building," says Alex Veiga at the Associated Press. The owner of the tallest building in New York City plans to sell shares of the skyscraper to the public. The Malkin family, which owns the midtown Manhattan skyscraper, hopes the move will allow it to "simplify control" of its sizable real estate holdings, which include 12 office buildings in New York and Connecticut. Here, a brief guide to the IPO, by the numbers:

$1 billion
The target amount the Malkin family expects to raise in the sale

$57.5 million
Amount Peter Malkin paid Donald Trump for the property in 2002

$550 million
Amount the Malkins have since spent making the tower more energy efficient and eco-friendly

$175 million to $215 million
Additional investments expected through 2013

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$156.7 million 
Revenue earned by the skyscraper through the first nine months of 2011

1931 
Year construction was completed

1933 
Year King Kong premiered, featuring the giant ape perched at the Empire State Building's pinnacle

102
Stories in the Empire State Building

160
Stories in Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world

1,050 
Elevation, in feet, of the Empire State Building's 86th floor observatory

1,250 
Elevation, in feet, of the 102nd floor observatory

2,716.5
Elevation, in feet, of the Burj Khalifa

10,000 to 20,000 
People who visit the Empire State Building daily

7.7 million
Square feet of rentable office space in the Malkins' dozen office buildings, including the Empire State Building

10.5 
Percentage of the Empire State Building's offices that are vacant, compared with an average of 6 percent in the surrounding neighborhood

Sources: Associated Press, Burj Khalifa, Digital Journal, Empire State Building, NY Times, Reuters 

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The 'disturbing' rise of super PACs: By the numbers

A small number of super-wealthy Americans are pumping a lot of lightly regulated money into the political system. Here's how it breaks down

President Obama got some grief this week when he reversed course on super PACs, suddenly encouraging wealthy supporters to contribute to the political spending behemoths that can accept unlimited donations from individuals and organizations. (Read a quick primer on super PACs here.) Obama campaign manager Jim Messina explained the change of heart as a nod to reality, saying Democrats can't "unilaterally disarm" while cash pours into Republican coffers. How much cash? A lot, say Kenneth Vogel and Abby Phillip at Politico. A new report from two public-interest groups confirms fears "that the cash for big-ticket campaign spending like TV advertising is increasingly controlled by an elite class of super-rich patrons not afraid to plunk down a million bucks or more for favored candidates and causes." Here, a stats-based look at the "disturbing" super PACs:

299
Registered super PACs

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$181 million
Amount raised by all super PACs in the past two years

56
Percent of those donations that came from "fewer than 200 super-rich people"

93
Percent of individual super PAC donors who gave at least $10,000

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$34 million
Amount donated by just 32 people last year

17
People who gave at least $1 million to super PACs last year

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15
$1 million-plus donations that went to Republican-aligned super PACs

$2 million
Amount DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg donated to Obama-aligned Priorities USA Action

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$8.6 million 
Amount Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons and his company gave to American Crossroads and other GOP-aligned super PACs

$11 million
Amount casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his family donated to Newt Gingrich's super PAC

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$175,000
Amount liberal financier George Soros donated to super PACs (though he made political contributions of more than $20 million in 2004)

$30.2 million
Amount raised by Mitt Romney–aligned Restore Our Future PAC last year

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$18.4 million
Amount raised by Karl Rove–founded American Crossroads last year

$4.4 million
Amount raised by Obama-aligned Priorities USA Action

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$250 million
Non-super PAC funds raised by Obama's campaign and the Democratic National Committee last year 

Sources: American Prospect, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Demos, Los Angeles Times, Politico

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The $26 billion foreclosure fraud settlement: By the numbers

The government and big banks strike a deal over alleged foreclosure abuses. Where will the money go?

After months of difficult negotiations, government authorities announced Thursday that they have reached a $26 billion settlement with five of the nation's biggest banks over their flawed and fraudulent foreclosure practices. The deal is intended to help troubled borrowers by lowering their mortgage rates and the amounts they owe on their homes. It also will provide restitution to people hit by mortgage-related abuses, such as the "robo-signing" of documents to speed up foreclosures. Who will the deal help, and how much relief will they get? Here, a brief guide to the settlement, by the numbers:

$26 billion
Total value of the settlement

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$30 billion
Value of the deal if nine more mortgage-servicing institutions sign on to the settlement. To date, it just involves Wells Fargo, Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase, Ally Financial, and Citigroup

$17 billion
Relief earmarked for homeowners. The money will go toward lowering mortgage balances for people who are "underwater" — meaning that they owe more on their mortgages than their properties are worth

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$20,000
Approximate average reduction in each loan's principal

2 million
Underwater homeowners who could be helped under the settlement

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$700 billion
Total outstanding mortgage debt on the nation's underwater properties

$50,000
Amount those homeowners are underwater, on average

$3 billion
Relief that will come in the form of refinancing so that borrowers who are current on their mortgages, but underwater, can lower their payments by refinancing at today's historically low rates

$1.5 billion
Money earmarked as restitution to those who have lost homes to foreclosure

750,000
People who have lost their homes to foreclosure between January 2008 and the end of 2011 who will be eligible for payouts under the deal

$2,000
Average payment those people would receive

4 million
Americans who have been through foreclosure since early 2007

49
States that have signed on to the settlement. The lone holdout is Oklahoma.

$250 billion
Size of the tobacco settlement, a similar agreement between government and corporations, struck in the 1990s

Sources: Business Insider, NY Times, Think Progress, Wash. Post

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Queen Elizabeth's diamond anniversary: By the numbers

Britain's reigning monarch has seen a dozen presidents, six popes, and 30 corgis come and go since assuming the throne in 1952

On Monday, Queen Elizabeth II marked the 60th anniversary of her accession to the British throne by watching schoolchildren in an eastern England town perform a play in her honor. The U.K. will also host a glitzy, days-long Diamond Jubilee in June to more formally and lavishly honor the Queen. In the meantime, here's a statistical look back at her six-decade reign:

25
Elizabeth's age when she became queen

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85
Her current age

12
British prime ministers during Elizabeth's reign

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12
U.S. presidents during Elizabeth's reign

6
Popes during her reign

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30
Corgis Elizabeth has owned during her reign. Currently, she has three, says Estelle Shirbon at Reuters: Monty, Willow, and Holly.

3,500
Acts of Parliament the Queen has given Royal Assent to since 1952

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261
Overseas visits she has taken, including 78 to the United States

116
Countries she has been to

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404,500
Honors and awards she has conferred

3.5 million
Estimated number of letters Elizabeth has answered, according to the official website of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee

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45,000
Estimated number of Christmas cards she has sent

90,000
Christmas puddings she has given to her staff during the holidays over the last 60 years, as part of a custom that began with King George V

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129
Portraits she has sat for

63
Years Queen Victoria reigned for, from 1837 to 1901. Victoria is the longest-serving monarch in British history, followed by Queen Elizabeth II.

4
Bank holidays that have been declared in the U.K. to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee, which will be held June 2-5

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1,000
Ships expected to take part in the pageant on the River Thames, the expected highlight of the Jubilee

20,000
People expected to take part in the pageant

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More than 1 million
People expected to line the river to cheer on the flotilla

£12 million
Estimated cost of the Diamond Jubilee Pageant. "The pageant is a once-in-a-lifetime event," pageant master Adrian Evans tells the Daily Mail, "one that will reclaim the Thames as a royal route."

£100,000
Price of the commemorative Diamond Jubilee whiskey by John Walker and Sons, sales of which will be donated to the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust

Sources: BBC (2), Daily Mail, TheDiamondJubilee.org, LA Times, Reuters

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Europe's unrelenting deep freeze: By the numbers

Hundreds have died as a wave of cold air from Siberia pushes temperatures in many towns to their lowest point in a century

While many parts of North America enjoy an unusually balmy winter, a deadly weeklong blast of frigid Siberian air has swept across Eastern Europe, trapping thousands of people in their homes. Emergency crews are struggling to clear snow and deliver badly needed supplies, as the death toll rises and weather forecasters warn that temperatures could plunge further in some areas early next week. Here, a look at the bitter freeze, by the numbers:

250
Death toll as of Friday morning, up from 114 the night before

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1,248
Patients admitted to hospitals for hypothermia and frostbite in the Ukraine, where the cold had killed 101 people by Friday

2,000
Heated tents set up to provide hot food for homeless Ukrainians

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Negative 58
The temperature, in degrees below zero Fahrenheit, recorded in parts of Kazakhstan, which was hit with the lowest temperatures on record

11,000
Serbians believed to be trapped in their homes in remote villages

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16.5
Feet of snow blocking roads in Serbia, barring relief workers from reaching snowed-in villagers

16
Towns experiencing their coldest temperatures in 100 years

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75
Years since Azerbaijan has experienced weather this cold

27
Years since Italy experienced a week as cold as this one. Rome got a rare snowfall, and eight inches fell in spots on the Mediterranean island of Corsica.

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112
Maximum wind speeds (in miles per hour) recorded in Slovenia

30
Percent drop in natural gas deliveries from Russia to many European countries (which get nearly half their natural gas from Russia), due to a rise in domestic demand as Russians try to keep warm

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Sources: Associated Press, Bloomberg, Reuters, Wash. Post

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