The U.S. has the highest rate of teen pregnancy among industrialized countries.
There are more shopping malls in the U.S. than high schools.

The U. S. population is 4.6% of global humanity, but it produces 24% of the world's carbon dioxide output, largely from the burning of fossil fuels.
Directly or indirectly, each U.S. citizen consumes his or her own body weight in primary resources every day: oil, coal, other minerals, and agricultural and forest products.

A child born today in the United States will have a lifetime impact on the environment that is 30 times greater than a child born today in a developing nation such as India.

The wealthy consume 45% of all meat and fish, use 58% of all energy produced and own 87% of the vehicles.

2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation, 1.5 billion have no access to clean water, 1.1 billion lack adequate housing and nearly 900 million have no access to modern health services of any kind.

According the UN, Americans and Europeans together spend $17 billion a year on pet food, $4 billion more than the estimated yearly additional amount needed to provide everyone in the world with basic health and nutrition.

Each year, there are approximately 3,600,000 unintended pregnancies in the United States.

Producing a quarter-pound of hamburger requires 100 gallons of water, 1.2 lbs. of feed grain and energy equal to a cup of gasoline, causing the loss of 1.25 lbs. of topsoil and producing greenhouse gas emissions equal to a 6-mile drive in a typical U.S. automobile.

Each U. S. citizen consumes an average of 260 lbs. of meat per year, the world's highest rate. This is about 1.5 times the industrial world average, three times the East Asian average, and 40 times the average in Bangladesh (6.5 Lbs.).

The trend is toward more consumption worldwide: Global spending on advertising, which stimulates consumption, multiplied nearly sevenfold from 1950 to 1990, when the total was $257 billion, or $48 for each person on the planet. It has nearly doubled again since then, to $435 billion, and is increasing faster than incomes or population, especially in developing nations.

AIDS/HIV is reversing decades of progress in improving the quality of life in developing countries. If AIDS affects 5% of the population, total national spending on health will increase by 40%.

Half of all new HIV infections occur in people aged 15-24. The infection rates among young women are higher than among young men.