What's Changed This Decade (1999-2009)

What's Changed This Decade (1999-2009) Ten years makes a big difference. At this moment in 1999, most people weren't online, yet alone checking status updates or funny pictures of cats. Now you can do both - while texting. Likewise, your Mom sure as hell didn't have a Facebook and we bet you had a job back then too. Since time flies when you are having fun, here is a guide to what changed in this decade. Since 1999... .there were 23 million marriages in America... .12 million ended in divorce .80,000 were same sex marriages .the USA's GDP grew 55% and remained the largest economy in the world ..China's economy grew over 300% and established itself as the third largest economy (#7 to #3) .the US added over 6 trillion to our national debt... $12.1 T .11% of the entire debt is owned solely by China and Japan $5.65 1999 2009 .Americans have purchased 1.9 million hybrids .gas prices have almost doubled in America $1.29 $2.52 per gallon per gallon 1999 2009 .the average MPG has improved to 21.1 from 16.7 .800 million were born .7 million were infected by HIV .60 million were killed by starvation .1.12 million Americans were killed by obesity .570,000 were killed by natural disasters .3.2 million were killed by wars and terrorists .the number of internet users went from 350 million to 1.7 billion 1999 2009 350 million of them have Facebook accounts 11.5 million of them play WoW .1,000,000,000,000 web pages have been created .13 million Wikipedia articles written .8 billion songs have been purchased and downloaded... .160 billion were pirated .cell phone use increased dramatically from 1 out of 10 people in 1999... .to 2 out of 3 people in 2009 sources hetp://www.cnbc.com/id/33309699slide3 http://www.treas.gov/tic/mfh.txt http://www.censusgov/hhes/www/tithins/hithins html http://www.bts.govipublications/national transportation statistics/html/table 04 09 html http://www.ioga.com/Special/crudeoil_Histhtm M orb o/main/www ople-billionaires-2009-billionaires land htmi http: http://www.faoorg/docrep/005/y7352e/y7352e00.htm hetp://win.niddknihgov/statisticsindex.htm http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom details.aspx?Newskd8 hetp://www.planetthoughts.org/?pg pt/Wholesgid1944 chttp://www.planetthoughts.oig/pg-pt/Wholesampgide1944> b . orld ofwarc 1/ http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press releases/2008/29.html hetp://www.gartner.com/it/pagejsp?id=985912 hetp://www.law.acla.edu/williamsinstitute/ Couples%20Marrk20Regis20Diss.pdt http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005044.html https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/indexhtml hettp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/7we-knew web-was-big.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/14mational-newspapers-sales-decade http://macdailynews.com/index.pho/weblog/comments/19613/ hittp://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/09/05/how-many-searches-has-google-done National Debt (in trillions)