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Amazing things are happening all the time. But are the numbers behind them. These are Five Amazing Statistics That Happen Every Five Minutes. Do you know any other amazing stats? We love to hear about them in the comments section below. You can also subscribe here - http://tinyurl.com/prn4lec Join us on Twitter here - www.twitter.com/Take5Nation And Facebook here - http://tinyurl.com/orv4j3z Babies Every minute there are, on average 250 babies born. Of that 113 of them will be born into poverty and 15 of them will have some type of birth defect. But just how old will these babies grow to be? Currently the worldwide average life expectancy of these babies is just under 70, which has increased from 64 in 2000. This increase is put down to medical enhancements and increasing standards of living. The country with the lowest life expectancy is Chad (closely followed by South Africa) at just under 50 years. The highest is Monaco which is just under 90. The U.S stands at 80 years old, just under Taiwan. Income Every minute Oprah Winfrey earns around $516. That equates to around $750,000 per day. However that pails into insignificance to Bills Gates how earns $15,000 per minute or $20 million a day. The worldwide average earnings is around $0.013 per minute. The U.S average is $0.13, which is the highest average in the world. An IT professional in India will make an average of $0.025 per minute. Nike employees thousands of people in Vietnam at an average wage of $0.0014 per minute. It’s a real eye opener to then find out the Nike makes roughly $34,505 per minute worldwide. Waste In the U.S 950,000 pounds of trash is thrown away every minute. Of that 120,000 pounds is edible food. Also, every minute 18 people die of starvation across the world – mostly in third world countries. That 120,000 pounds of edible food a minute equates to 21.5 million tons of food waste each year. If we composted that food, it would reduce the same amount of greenhouse gas as taking 2 million cars off the road. Around 64,000 aluminum cans a minute find its way into landfill in the U.S. That’s 36 billion aluminum cans landfilled a year with a scrap value of more than $600 million. Crime On average there are 2.2 violent crimes in the U.S every minute. These include murder and non-negligent homicides, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults. There are also 5.2 property crimes per minute, burglaries, larceny-thefts, and motor vehicle thefts. Financial losses suffered of crimes were calculated at approximately $24,000 per minute. Police make an estimated 21 arrests per minute. One per minute for violent crimes, and three per minute for property crimes. More than 73 percent of those arrested during are male. Consumption Every minute, 4,500 McDonald’s burgers are sold, 24,000 KitKat fingers are consumed worldwide and Dunkin’ Donuts sells more than 12,000 cups of freshly brewed coffee. Every minute Americans consume 1,750 pizza slices and 2750 hot dogs. Also 35,000 Coca-Cola products are consumed. At the same time 29,500 pounds of tomatoes are eaten every minute. Also in the U.S there are roughly 3 cases of type 2 diabetes diagnosed every minute. Perhaps we should lay of the pizza, hotdogs and coke and eat a few more tomatoes!