The new Vital Signs 1998 gives you more than 100 charts, graphs and tables that show you the worldwide trends that are changing our lives, for better and for worse. It includes the latest data on critical global trends, presented in simple but compelling graphics, along with concise, thoughtful analysis. Every week, more than one million people are added to the world's urban centers.
China accounts for half of world pork production and consumption.
More than 40 percent of these new infections occurred in women. One in five fish eaten today was raised on a farm. Sixty percent of telephone subscribers in Cambodia are using mobile cellular phones. The internet has more than doubled in size each year in the last decade, but more than 90 percent of internet users are in industrial countries. The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached its highest point in 160,000 years.