data

I like weird data and facts.

The magazine brand eins just released a book full of numbers – “Die Welt in Zahlen – 2010” – which is highly recommendable. I hope they don’t mind if I translate a couple of items into English to make a bit of advertising.

• Pirate assaults on ships in 2003: 445
• Pirate assults on ships in 2008: 293
• Increase in piracy-insurance in the last 12 months: 900%

• Turnover made by Real Madrid in season 07/08 (in million Euro): 366
• Turnover by all German football, handball, icehockey and basketball clubs together in the same time: 500

• Worldwide turnover with digital music in 2004 (in billion dollars): 0.4
• Worldwide turnover with digital music in 2007: 3.7
• Number of illegal downloads per legal download: 8