Collection of unusual data

This section contains a compilation of data that may be of particular interest for people who are looking to give their work a different angle. Professors can use this section to find data that will astonish their students; someone wanting to hold an impressive speech will find the necessary data here; journalists can also discover data which will give their articles the certain extra.

Data	Source	Year	URL	Download Excel file
Economically Active Population	International Labour Organisation Geneva, Labour Statistics Database	2011	http://laborsta.ilo.org/data _topic_E.html
Total Oil Supply	U.S. Energy Information Administration	2010	http://www.eia.gov/emeu/ international/oilproduction.html
Total adult (15+ years) per capita alcohol consumption	World Health Organisation	2005	http://apps.who.int/gho/indicator registry /App_Main/view_ indicator.aspx?iid=465
Total production of crude steel	World Steel Association	2009	http://www.worldsteel.org/pictures/ publicationfiles/Steel%20Statistical %20Yearbook%202009.pdf
Number of registered vehicles	World Health Organisation	2006- 2007	http://apps.who.int/gho/indicator registry/App_Main/view_indicator. aspx?iid=194
Total Number of Nobel Price Winners	BBC	2010	http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ magazine-11500373
Total Electricity Net Consumption (Billion Kilowatthours)	U.S. Energy Information Administration	2008	http://www.eia.gov/emeu/inter- national/electricityconsumption. html
Internet users per 100 population	International Telecommunication Union	2010	http://www.itu.int/ITUD/icteye/Reporting/ ShowReportFrame.aspx?ReportName=/WTI /InformationTechnologyPublic&ReportFormat =HTML4.0&RP_intYear=2000&RP_intLanguag eID=1&RP_bitLiveData=False
Police per 100,000 population	Graduate Institute Geneva, Small Arms Servey	2011	http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin /docs/A-Yearbook/2011/en/Small-Arms- Survey-2011-Chapter-04-EN.pdf
Index of Political Instability	Economist Intelligence Unit	2009-2010	http://viewswire.eiu.com/site_info.asp? info_name=social_unrest_table&page= noads&rf=0
Hospital beds per 10000 population	WHO, World Health Statistics	2000-2009	http://www.who.int/whosis/ whostat/2011/en/index.html