What Has Changed This Decade
America’s GDP grew 55% and remained the largest economy in the world. However, most of that growth came in the first half of the decade. Meanwhile, China’s economy grew at over 300% and established itself as the 3rd largest economy in the world. (from #7 to #3)
America added over 6 trillion to our national debt. 11% of the entire debt is owned solely by China and Japan.
Gas prices doubled from $1.29 to $2.52, as supplies continued to dwindle.
800 million were born in the world.
7 million were infected with HIV.
60 million were killed by starvation, as 1.2 million Americans were killed by obesity.
570,000 were killed by natural diasters.
3.2 million were killed by wars and terrorists.
The number of internet users went from 350 million to 1.7 billion.
350 million now have facebook accounts and 11.5 million of them play WoW.
1,000,000,000,000 web pages have been created.
13 million Wikipedia articles have been written.
8 billion songs have been purchased and downloaded, but 160 billion were pirated.
Cell phone use increased dramatically from 1 out of 10 people in 1999 to 2 out of 3 in 2009.
The number 1 song in America today as I write this is Tik Tok by Ke$ha, a girl with a dollar sign in her name…how appropriate!
It will probably start something like… A once proud, Godly nation…
and expanding. America may be losing its way a little, but God has not. Check out this blog: http://www.sethbarnes.com/?filename=the-kingdom-is-coming-faster-than-your-realized
