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On July 28, 2023 NHTSA proposed new fuel economy targets for light-duty vehicles for the 2027—2031 model years, as well as heavy-duty trucks and vans for the 2030—2035 model years. The preferred alternative calls for 2 percent annual increases for cars, 4 percent for light trucks, and 10 percent for heavy-duty trucks and vans, among other ...
The under-five mortality rate (U5MR) is the number of deaths of infants and children under five years old per 1000 live births. The under-five mortality rate for the world is 39 deaths according to the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO). 5.3 million children under age five died in 2018, 14,722 every day.
The tax was expected to raise around $2.75 trillion over 10 years, roughly 1% GDP on average per year. This was expected to raise the total tax burden for those subject to the wealth tax from 3.2% relative to their wealth under current law to about 4.3% on average, versus the 7.2% for the bottom 99% families. [ 111 ]
Google's 2020 diversity report states that 32 percent of its workforce are women and 68 percent are men, with the ethnicity of its workforce being predominantly white (51.7%) and Asian (41.9%). [258] Within tech roles, 23.6 percent were women; and 26.7 percent of leadership roles were held by women. [ 259 ]
The rural-urban literacy gap, which was 21.2 percentage points in 2001, dropped to 16.1 percentage points in 2011. The improvement in the rural literacy rate is twice that of urban areas. [ 366 ] Kerala is the most literate state with 93.91% literacy; while Bihar the least with 63.82%.
In 2014, more than 600 million adults were obese, equal to about 13 percent of the world's adult population, [218] with that figure growing to 16% by 2022, according to the World Health Organisation [219] The percentage of adults affected in the United States as of 2015–2016 is about 39.6% overall (37.9% of males and 41.1% of females). [220]
Sri Lankans have a life expectancy of 75.5 years at birth, which is 10% higher than the world average. [ 271 ] [ 270 ] The infant mortality rate stands at 8.5 per 1,000 births and the maternal mortality rate at 0.39 per 1,000 births, which is on par with figures from developed countries.
For comparison, the diameter of a typical galaxy is 30,000 light-years (9,198 parsecs), and the typical distance between two neighboring galaxies is 3 million light-years (919.8 kiloparsecs). [52] As an example, the Milky Way is roughly 100,000–180,000 light-years in diameter, [ 53 ] [ 54 ] and the nearest sister galaxy to the Milky Way, the ...