25 DISTURBING Facts About Society!
25 Disturbing Facts About Our Society.
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NUMBER 1.
Doctors in the United States write more than 250 million prescriptions for antidepressants each year, According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
NUMBER 2.
This one should make some people angry. Apparently 50 of the worst charities give less than 4 percent of all the donations they get to their cause. And, according to some sources, one huge diabetes charity raise around 14 million dollars and gave less the 10,000 dollars to their patients, pocketing the rest.
NUMBER 3.
Eleven percent of the American population over the age of 12 has admitted to driving home under the influence of alcohol at least once during the past year.
NUMBER 4.
In the US, there are over 33,000 gang affiliations running around, with around 1.4 million members in them.
NUMBER 5.
Prescription painkillers kill more Americans than heroin and cocaine combined.
NUMBER 6.
Many Americans sure like to be as perfect as possible, as this is why they get more plastic surgery done than any other country in the world.
NUMBER 7.
America has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the developed world, with fifty-seven out of every one thousand girls aged between fifteen and nineteen having a child, and most don't graduate high school because of it.
NUMBER 8.
With 868 out of every 1,000 people in jail or prison, Seychelles in East Africa has the highest number of prisoners per capita. As I'm sure you can guess, number two is the US, which currently has twenty-two percent of the entire world’s prisoners.
NUMBER 9.
A 2014 survey found that Americans, on average, spend $8,505 a year on medical care, far more than the twelve other surveyed nations. But, strangely, the United States ranked last in overall healthcare performance, in metrics such as fairness of care, efficiency and healthy lifestyles.
NUMBER 10.
Eighty percent of female sex abuse victims are abused by someone they know.
NUMBER 11.
America has the highest STD infection rate in the industrialized world, with twenty million new cases every year.
NUMBER 12.
Nearly one-fifth of all adults in the US do not follow a religious sect. According to the Census Bureau, this number has more than doubled between since the 90's.
NUMBER 13.
A study found that an astounding 86 percent of abortions are done simply because it's the easiest solution.
NUMBER 14.
America has the highest divorce rate in the world by a good margin, I'm guessing since we treat marriage like a stupid game.
NUMBER 15.
There are around 500 thousand homeless people in our society. Half of that are children. It's not always economic hardships that cause this either.
NUMBER 16.
It's no surprise that pornography is all over the Internet, but what you might not know is that roughly 30 percent of all websites have a redirect to a porn site.
NUMBER 17.
Every year, at least 8,000 US soldiers and veterans commit suicide. However, not are all side effects from war; some are side effects from prescription drugs.
NUMBER 18.
Nearly seventy percent of American citizens regularly take at least one prescription drug. If you look at the larger picture, roughly 20 percent are on 5 or more.
NUMBER 19.
In 2014, 1,149 people were killed by police officers.
NUMBER 20.
There are almost 750,000 registered sex offenders in the United States, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
NUMBER 21.
There are a lot of countries out there in the world. It's almost a shock to hear that the United States consumes roughly 18 percent of the total world wide energy consumption.
NUMBER 22.
We have estimated that by 2018, there will be around 2.56 billion smartphone users across the globe. If you think about it, that is a lot of distracted people walking around.
NUMBER 23.
The EPA suggest that the average American throws out around 4 and a half pounds of trash a day. If you account for the rest of the American population, it equates to 1.4 billion pounds of junk is thrown out daily.
NUMBER 24.
It's no surprise that SAT scores in America have been falling over the last few years, but kids in the US rank below the top half of the rest of all the industrialized nations across the rest of the world.
NUMBER 25.
The sheer amount of overweight and obese people is astounding, especially in the US alone. Worldwide, an average of thirty seven men and women are considered overweight or obese.