Time Magazine- Numbers

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Numbers

MONEY

48%

Percentage of Americans surveyed who say the country is divided along economic lines. The number was 26% in 1988

34%

Percentage who think they belong to the have-nots, double the percentage of 1988

HEALTH

41

U.S. rank, out of 171 countries, of women who die from complications in pregnancy or childbirth. The U.S. death rate--1 in 4,800 women--is far higher than the European average of 1 in 16,400