For the first time since the first election of the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998, the Irish nationalist party Sinn Féin has won more seats than any other party after the vote held on May 5. Sinn Féin aims to reunify Northern Ireland with the Republ…
In face of the highest inflation in 40 years, the Federal Reserve announced another widely expected rate hike last Wednesday. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) unanimously decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate to 0.75 to 1…
Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s new social media network Truth Social is attracting male, college-educated Millennials, according to new data from the Statista Global Consumer Survey. The survey, conducted in March 2022, also found that Reddit use…
Life expectancy has taken a rare hit in the European Union during the Covid-19 pandemic. As our infographic using Eurostat data shows, despite a blip in 2015, life expectancy in the EU had been growing every year since at least 2003. In 2020, however, …
Three out of four U.S. Americans who actively follow sports are fans of American Football and cheer for their teams from their couches, stadium seats or barstools. As data from our Statista Global Consumer Survey shows, this fascination with the most l…
Papua New Guinea and the United States are the only countries not offering new mothers some form of paid maternity leave. Family friendly policies are important as they enable parents to balance work and home commitments more effectively while they hav…
Larger ships make up the vast majority of black carbon emissions, with container ships, bulk carriers and oil tankers emitting 60 percent of all BC emissions, according to the 2021 European Maritime Transport Environmental report. Although cruise ships…
While the U.S. already banned imports of Russian energy in March and April shortly after the country’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU as one of Russia’s crucial trading partners is taking longer to ween itself off Russian gas, oil and coal. Import data on…
As China continues to battle coronavirus outbreaks with draconian lockdowns, industrial production in the country has been hit by the measures. For the second month in a row, both the Caixin Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index and the Manufacturing…
Dragged down by tech heavyweights Amazon and Apple, the S&P 500 slid into correction territory on Friday – for the second time in 2022. The capitalization-weighted index dropped 3.6 percent on the last trading day of April, as Amazon and Apple lost 14 …
