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Notable numbers: Graduation rates, children’s suicides and bicyclists’ deaths

Notable numbers

Statistics from the past week that deserve a doubletake

89.7 The adjusted cohort high school graduation rate in Iowa in 2013, the highest in the nation

68.7 The rate in Oregon, the lowest

81.4 The national average

82.5 The rate in North Carolina

$33,746 The starting pay for workers in New York City’s Sanitation Department

$69,339 The pay after 5.5 years in the union job, not including overtime

75,000 The number of people who took the exam in February to become a NYC sanitation worker

2.54 The suicide rate, per 1 million children, among black children ages 5 to 11 in 2012

1.36 The rate for black children in 1993

0.77 The rate for white children ages 5 to 11 in 2012

1.14 The rate for white children in 1993

743 The number of bicyclists killed in the United States in 2013

623 The number in 2010

83 The percentage of bicyclists killed who were male

~25 The percentage who had a blood alcohol content above the legal limit

$21.3 billion What nearly 50 million tourists spent in North Carolina last year, roughly the amount of the state budget and 5.4 percent more than 2013

204,000 The number of N.C. jobs that tourists support

40,000 The number of businesses

1 Where Raleigh ranked on a list of the best cities for jobs, according to employer review site Glassdoor

32 The number of international students UNC-Chapel Hill admitted as undergraduates in 2000

48 The number it admitted in 2012

43 The number of international students UCLA admitted as undergraduates in 2000

1,046 The number of international freshmen UCLA had in 2012

This story was originally published May 22, 2015 at 3:50 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Graduation rates, children’s suicides and bicyclists’ deaths."

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