Trends in Europe and North America
24 June 1997
At last statistics for every one
Statistical yearbooks are usually boring publications which only specialists can understand and use. "Trends in Europe and North America" (United Nations Publication, Sales No. E.97.II.E.5 - Unit price US$35)
just published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE) is NOT that type of publication. It gives you very down to earth information on the 55 countries of the UN/ECE which are located from Vancouver to Vladivostok, from the North Pole to the Red Sea, through Tashkent, Warsaw, Rome and London.
If you are going on vacation to Greece this year, in "Trends in Europe and North America" you will find the basic data about the country which will enable you not only to enjoy the sun and the sea, but also to have a basic knowledge about the country and its people. Did you know, for example, that Greece has one of the lowest divorce rates in Western Europe? That tourism brings US $ 397.- per inhabitant, which is rather low as compared to Austria with its US $ 1816.- and high compared to the Russian federation where tourism brings only US$ 9.- per inhabitant.
You watch a broadcast on Tajikistan and you have no idea where the country is, what is its capital, the number of inhabitants. "Trends in Europe and North America" will give you this information simply and clearly. At once, you will discover that Tajikistan is located south of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, it has 5.8 million of inhabitants of which 9% live in the capital Dushanbe.
Smoking is dangerous, but how dangerous? In "Trends in Europe and North America" you will learn that 24% of deaths in the United States are attributed to smoking and that almost one third of males die from smoking related causes in the Netherlands while only 6 % of women die from these same causes in that country.
"Trends in Europe and North America", with its 216 pages, is a mine of information where specialists and laypersons can both find information concerning their fields of interest. The countries covered by "Trends in Europe and North America" are: Albania; Andorra; Armenia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Belgium; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Canada; Croatia; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Kazakstan; Kyrgyzstan; Latvia; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Malta; Monaco; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Republic of Moldova; Romania; Russian Federation; San Marino; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Tajikistan; The former Yugoslav; Republic of Macedonia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Ukraine; United Kingdom of Great Britain; and Northern Ireland; United States of America; Uzbekistan; Yugoslavia.
Even if you hate figures and tables you will be interested in "Trends in Europe and North America".
Did you know that....
... if not look at "Trends in Europe and North America"
° While rising generally in Europe and North America, life expectancy has fallen dramatically in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union. In Russia, life expectancy for men is now 58 years.
° Infant mortality is six times higher in Turkey, Turkmenistan and Albania than in the EU.
° Mortality from heart disease is more than 7 times higher in Latvia than in France.
° Hungary has the highest cancer mortality rate in Europe and Albania the lowest.
° Everywhere in Europe and North America men are more likely to commit suicide than women; in Lithuania the difference is five-fold.
° In 1995 Spain had four times as many new AIDS cases as the U.K.
° There is now more women than men in university and other tertiary education in many ECE countries.
° The lowest proportion of women in university and tertiary education is found in Switzerland and Turkey (less than 40 per cent).
° In 1995, it was in Slovenia that people ran the highest risks of being killed in road traffic accidents. Malta and the U.K. have the lowest rates of fatal road accidents.
° One quarter of those killed in road accidents in Tajikistan are children while in Italy it is only three per cent.
° Monaco, Luxembourg and Italy now have more cars per 1000 inhabitants than the United States, where the car density has decreased.
° While leaded petrol is no longer used in many countries, in the Mediterranean countries it still makes up more than half of all the petrol used in cars.
° United States is the biggest car producer in the region, yet it exports less cars than Belgium.
° Three quarters of all aircraft registered in the world are in North America.
° France is the country with most tourists in the world, but Austria's per capita earning from tourism is three times higher than is the case in France.
° More than three quarters of the natural gas produced in the world comes from the ECE region.
° The Netherlands exports more refined petroleum products than any other country in Europe and North America.
° Per capita consumption of electricity ranges from 25 000 Kwh per year in Norway to 1 200 Kwh in Albania.
° More than three quarters of all electricity produced in France and Lithuania are of nuclear origin, while a number of countries in Europe have no nuclear power stations at all (e.g. Austria, Denmark, Italy, Norway and Poland).
.... and more can be found in "Trends in Europe and North America"