Hello Wanttoknowmore,
Below you will find the results of my research for the statistics you requested.
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How many radio and TV stations are there around the world?
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According to The National Association of Broadcasters FAQ, there are
over 21,500 television stations and over 44,000 radio stations around
the world.
?How many radio and TV stations are there in the world??
?The NAB Information Resource Center is not aware of a single source
for international television and radio station totals. However, there
is a list of totals for most countries available online through the
CIA World Factbook (Radio; TV). Using this list, the IRC has compiled
approximate, unofficial international totals. Worldwide, as of
January 2000, there are over 21,500 television stations and over
44,000 radio stations.?
NAB Information Resource Center
http://www.nab.org/irc/Virtual/faqs.asp#World-Totals
?There are 21,500 television stations around the world, and 44,000
radio stations. Over 10,000 cable operators serve US households with
over 80% of of US households receiving either cable or satellite TV
(5% receive both).?
Influence: Thought Leadership
http://www.influence.com/about/more/more210501.html
Music Mania states that there are 33,000 radio stations
?In 1894 the president of the Royal Society, Lord Kelvin, prophesied
that radio had no future. Today, there are more than 33,000 radio
stations around the world. Worldwide there are 2,24 billion radio
sets.?
Music mania: Did you know?
http://www.didyouknow.cd/music/music.htm
?Today, there are more than 33,000 radio stations around the world,
with more than 12,000 in the US alone. Worldwide there are 2,24
billion radio sets, or one radio for every 2.5 persons; proof that
video never killed the radio star.?
Music mania: Radio History http://www.didyouknow.cd/music/radiohistory.htm
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How many newspapers are there?
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?Today more than 60,000 newspapers are published around the globe,
including 8000 dailies, with a combined circulation of 500 million and
an estimated readership of 1.5 billion people.?
Theory of Development by Garry Jacobs, Robert Macfarlane, and N. Asokan
http://www.motherservice.org/Essays/TheoryofDevelopment.html
ICPD: Comprehensive Theory of Social Development
http://www.icpd.org/development_theory/comprehensive_theory_of_social_development.htm
?There are about 60,000 newspapers in the world today with a third of
them in the United States. Most of them are tabloid size.?
http://users.telerama.com/~cass/speakers.html
?The speed and reliability of information in recent years is
accelerating society's awareness of possibilities. Whether it be the
world's 60,000 newspapers (..) ?
http://www.gurusoftware.com/GuruNet/Social/Topics/Process.htm
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How many emails are sent per day worldwide?
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About 31 billion emails are sent per day worldwide
?IDC predicts that more than 60 billion emails will be sent every day
by 2006. The report, Worldwide Email Usage Forecast, 2002-2006: Know
What's Coming Your Way, puts the current daily email count at 31
billion?
Vnunet News
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1135485
?According to Gartner, 11 billion emails were sent per day worldwide
in 2001. That number is expected to more than triple to 36 billion per
day by 2005 (and IDC reports even higher estimates of 31 billion
emails per day in 2002 and up to 60 billion per day by 2006).?
Econtent, Jan, 2003, by Ron Miller
http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:9a_nq-rlj-MJ:www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0BLB/1_26/96513010/p1/article.jhtml+eMails+Sent+per+Day+Worldwide&hl=es&ie=UTF-8
?Currently, over 10 billion emails are sent worldwide every day, and
the International Data Corporation estimates that this number will
increase to 36 billion daily messages by 2005.?
Source:
MX Logic, Inc.
White Paper: Spam Filtering Services
http://www.mobileenterprise.biz/images/MX%20Logic%20White%20Paper_Spam%20Filtering%20Services.pdf
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How many phone calls are made at a given instant, or in a day, or in a year?
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The only figure I found regarding worldwide phone calls is the following:
?Around the globe 2 billion telephone calls are made every day?about
half of them in North America.?
http://www.rayjutkins.com/pdm/pdm09-02.html
Here are statistics regarding U.S. phone calls.
Between two and three billion phone calls are made every day in the US
Source:
High Speed Data Analysis at MassDAL (Poster Presentation)
State of New Jersey Symposium on Homeland Security Research
October 29, 2003
Busch Campus Center, Rutgers University
Excerpt:
?Three billion phone calls are made every day in the US. Thirty
billion email messages are sent every day worldwide. These are massive
data sources. The Massive Data Analysis Lab brings expertise from
Algorithms, Databases, Networking, Systems and Engineering to bear on
all all aspects of gathering, managing and mining massive data
including text, telecommunications, sensor, epidemiological, location
and other data. This poster will show several examples of work at
MassDAL.?
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/NJHomeland/abstracts.html
?Each business day, almost two billion telephone calls take place in
the United States.?
Pearson Education, Inc.
http://www.scottforesman.com/sci_ad/1/pdf/telephone_bw.pdf
?The telephone is a basic tool in American business. Businesses place
over one billion phone calls every working day. A great bulk of those
calls are telephone sales calls.?
TWU: Department of Fashion and Textiles
http://www.twu.edu/as/ft/jobsearch.htm
The following figures might be of your interest as well.
Telephones - main lines in use worldwide
Total 930.48 million
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph-T/med_tel_mai_lin_in_use&int=300
Telephones - mobile cellular worldwide
Total 529.08 million
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph-T/med_tel_mob_cel&int=300
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Text messages (SMS)
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An estimated one billion text messages (SMS) are being sent every day
around the world
?Short Message Service (SMS), or text messaging, has proved extremely
popular among GSM users, with an estimated 1 billion SMS messages
being sent every day globally1. With SMS the user can send short text
messages directly from one mobile phone to another.?
Google Cache
://www.google.com/search?q=cache:7goZJ8vy5CoJ:www.ericsson.com/press/archive/backgrounder/messaging_backgrounder.doc+text+messages+are+sent+every+day&hl=es&ie=UTF-8
?By late 2003, nearly a billion text messages were being sent every
day around the world.?
Scope
http://www.science.ie/scopetv/content/content.asp?section_id=665
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How many books are published worldwide every year?
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300,000 books are published worldwide each year.
?Each year in the USA 50,000 new books are published 300,000 new books
are published worldwide.?
ePublishers Weekly: The Information Revolution
http://www.zorbapress.com/epweekly/f_epw/inforev1.htm
?300,000 books are published each year worldwide.?
KnowledgeNets 2001
http://www.infotoday.com/it/jul01/bruno.htm
?300,000 books are published worldwide every year. There are 18,000
different magazines published in the U.S. alone. And if you have time
to get through all the books and magazines there are 40,000 scholarly
journals published annually around the world.?
http://www.theaterchurch.com/pages/evotionals/richtext/evotional_10152003.htm
?Today more than 300,000 new books spew out of worldwide presses every year.?
http://www.linezine.com/5.2/articles/tdeatae.htm
?..when there are 300,000 new books published worldwide each year;?
http://www.amanet.org/books/catalog/0814407536_ch.htm
The attention economy
Dániel Füleki
E-business Research Centre
?Yearly data about text production:
60,000 new books (USA)
300,000 new books (worldwide)
18,000 magazines (USA)
225,000,000,000 billion pages of editorial content
400,000 scientific journals (worldwide)
http://www.bkae.hu/ebk/downloads/ISC_FD/attecon_eng_ISC.ppt
?They point to the following: 60,000 new books are published annually
in the United States alone (300,000 worldwide); 18,000 magazines are
published domestically, with 225 billion pages of editorial content;
400,000 scholarly journals are published each year; 1.5 billion
catalogs are sent annually to American households; 87.2 billion pieces
of direct mail are sent each year in the United States; more than
13,300 separate electronic databases are on the market; and more than
2 billion Web pages exist, with Internet traffic double every 100
days.?
KMworld
http://www.kmworld.com/publications/magazine/index.cfm?action=readarticle&Article_ID=1070&Publication_ID=51
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