5/24/2007

Today's link - obesity, startup

1) here is a obesity infographics of the percentage of population older than 15, with a body-mass index greater than 30. Out of 27 countries on the list, and US man is on the top with 31%.
2) a recent survey shows between 2005-2006, 0.29% of US population started their own business. The immigrant rate of entrepreneurial activity increased from 0.35% in 2005 to 0.37% in 2006, much higher than the rate for the native-born population, 0.27%.
Midwest region had the lowest level of entrepreneurial activity of all regions - Detroit is 0.13%, Chicago is 0.18%, well below the national average.

2 comments:

Grey said...

Thank you for linking to my site.

-Grey

John A Hill said...

Does that mean that the US man is above average?