Notable numbers: Lottery sales, gun deaths and unauthorized immigrants

8,000 The number fewer 4-year-olds served today in NC Pre-K than were served in 2009, the program’s peak

$48.2 million The amount of money, adjusted for inflation, that lawmakers have cut from the program since, with the biggest cut of $29 million coming in 2012

$468 The amount of lottery sales per capita in Halifax County in 2014

2 Where Halifax ranks among 100 counties in highest lottery sales per capita

27.4 The percentage of Halifax residents living below the poverty level

72 The percentage of Americans who said in May that undocumented immigrants in the U.S. should be allowed to stay if they meet certain requirements

56 The percentage of Republicans who said that

76 The percentage of Republicans who said in 2013 that deporting all immigrants in the U.S. illegally was unrealistic

26 The percentage of North Carolina’s public school students who are black

51 The percentage of students suspended from North Carolina public schools who are black

1.4 The number of homicides by firearm per 1 million people in Australia in 2012, the lowest rate among advanced countries

29.7 The number of homicides by firearms in the United States, the highest rate

7.7 The number of homicides by firearm in Switzerland, the next highest

4.43 The percentage of the world’s population who live in the United States

42 The percentage of the world’s civilian-owned guns owned by people in the United States

This story was originally published August 28, 2015 at 3:41 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Lottery sales, gun deaths and unauthorized immigrants."