Consumer

Googlegenerated $238 billion in revenue from its advertising segment in 2023, representing 77% of Alphabet’s overall revenue this past year. Hearings for the US anti-trust lawsuit against Google began on September 9, 2024. Company statements by Microsoft, Baidu and Yandex, a search portal formerly based in Russia and now headquartered in the Netherlands, show that even with users’ preference for ...

In 2022, 1,552 Autonomous Vehicles driving 5.7 million miles were reported registered for testing in California. These AVs were involved in 150 collisions throughout the year, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles’ (DMV) Autonomous Vehicle Collision Reports, which puts AVs at a crash rate of 96.7 per 1,000 vehicles and 26.3 per million vehicle miles. Statista calculations with ...

Today is World Suicide Prevention day. South Korea and Lithuania had the highest rates of suicide among men in 2021 at 34.9 and 33.1 cases per 100,000 population, respectively. For women, South Korea and Japan had the highest rates of the selected countries, with 15.2 and 10.2 cases per 100,000. The  data on suicide prevalence in OECD shows that of ...

The US Open, which kicked off on Monday, is offering the largest purse in tennis history – $75 million. Both singles champions will take home $3.6 million, while first round losers take home $100,000 for the first time. Professional tennis  players are essentially self-employed, covering their own expenses, including travel, accommodation and wages for coaches and other staff. Those who ...

Yesterday was National Radio Day. Austria and Germany are, according to a Statista Consumer Insights survey, the countries where people are most likely to switch on a radio. 17% of Austrians and 16% of Germans say they listen to the radio for at least 11 hours a week. By contrast under 5% of the citizens of  Mexico and  Korea considered themselves ...

During ing the coronavirus pandemic, the share of people doing no traveling at all rose globally, but save for a few exception, the market has normalized now. In 2021, the share of people saying they had done no traveling in the past 12 months grew as high as 29 percent in the United Kingdom and South Korea, up from just ...

In 2023,  the EU countries with the highest proportions of citizens at risk of poverty or social exclusion were: Romania (32 percent), Bulgaria (30 percent), Spain (26.5 percent) and Greece (26.1 percent). The definition of those at risk of poverty or social exclusion is people living in households facing at least one of the three risks of poverty and exclusion: ...

Inflation has outstripped wage growth in Finland, Italy, Canada, Australia, Japan, the Czech Republic, Sweden and New Zealand according to the OECD Employment Outlook 2024, with  real wages decreasing by more than 5% and Sweden seeing wages fall 7.5% The United States fared better than others as real wages were 0.8% lower in Q1 of 2024 than in Q4 of ...

It was International Friendship Day on July 30. Germans, and to a slightly lesser extent the Spanish, are particularly likely to include spending time with others as one of their main personal pastimes, according to data from a Statista Consumer Insights survey. By contrast, respondents in the US and in urban India were far less likely to consider socialising as ...

In 2023, world beer production decreased by nearly 17m hectolitres (hl) to 1.88 billion hl. In Europe, production fell by 9m hl, largely driven by a drop in output from the UK (-3.3m hl), Germany (-2.9m hl) and Poland (-2m hl). In the Americas, output fell by 7.2m hl with  U.S. production dropping 9.9m hl while South American production rose 2.4m ...