Notable numbers: CEO pay, suicide searches and toilets

Statistics that deserve a doubletake

12:36 The time in the a.m. that “suicide” peaks in a Google search

1:00 The time in the a.m. that “porn” peaks

3:24 The time in the a.m. that “lonely” peaks

4:28 The time in the a.m. that “match” peaks

5:24 The time in the a.m. that “weather” peaks

54.3 The percentage increase in pay for the country’s top 350 CEOS between 2009 and 2014

1.7 The percentage decrease in pay for the workers in the industries run by those CEOS

$230 million Total pay for Boeing CEO James McNerney 2005-2014

$59 million The package he received upon retirement July 1

997.2 The percentage increase, adjusted for inflation, in CEO salaries from 1978 to 2014

10.9 The percentage increase in worker pay

82 The number of people shot in Chicago over the July 4th weekend, 15 fatally

14 The percentage of people living in the developing world who are extremely poor

47 The percentage who were extremely poor in 1990

40 The percentage decrease in the birthrate among teenagers in Colorado from 2009 to 2013 after the state began offering free long-acting birth control to teens and poor women

42 The percentage decrease in the abortion rate over the same period

95 The percentage of the 2,437 elected state and local prosecutors across the country in 2014 who were white

79 The percentage who were white men

31 The percentage of the U.S. population who are white men

2.4 billion The number of people, or a third of the world’s population, who still do not have access to proper sanitation facilities

6.7 The percentage of people in South Sudan who have access to a toilet – the world’s worst offender

4,013,000 The number of Syrian refugees – the largest single refugee group for almost 25 years

The July 4 numbers incorrectly referred to Jefferson Davis as a Confederate general. He was president of the Confederacy.

This story was originally published July 10, 2015 at 5:39 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: CEO pay, suicide searches and toilets."