Average GDP per capita in most economically free countries : 23 325 $US
Average GDP per capita in most economically unfree countries : 3 829 $US
(w/purchasing power parity)
(Heritage Foundation, 2002 Index of Economical Freedom)
Average GDP per capita in most economically free states and provinces : 37 268 $US
Average GDP per capita in most economically unfree states and provinces : 21 056 $US
(Fraser Institute and NCPA, 2002 Economic Freedom of North America)
Average waiting times in Canadian hospitals, 1993 : 9.3 weeks
Average waiting times in Canadian hospitals, 2002 : 16.5 weeks
In comparaison, the average waiting time in the UK in 2002 was 9.4 weeks.
(Fraser Institute, annual "Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada" surveys
Health Insight, "Patient waiting targets and bed blocking", January 2002)
Homicide rate in Israel, Switzerland and Austria : 1.2, 1.1, 1.5
(European countries with least restrictive gun laws)
Homicide rates in Luxembourg, Denmark, Germany : 2.1, 5.0, 1.8
(European countries with most restrictive gun laws)
Total homicide rate in United States : 7.3
Homicide rate in United States, excluding gun use : around 2.4 (one-third)
Total homicide rate in Canada : 2.0
(U.N. Demographic Yearbooks, U.N. Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice's Vienna Session, Swiss national police)
Improvement in environmental quality indicators since 1980, in US : +18%
Improvement in environmental quality indicators since 1980, in Canada : +17%
Improvement in environmental quality indicators since 1980, in Mexico : 0%
(includes air pollution levels, water pollution levels, waste management, land management, and natural resources)
(Fraser Institute, Environmental Indicators 2002)
Tons of trees necessary to make one ton of milled lumber in industrialized countries : 1.3
Tons of trees necessary to make one ton of milled lumber in developing countries : 2
("NASA scientists get global fix on food, wood & fiber use", Nature Magazine, June 2004)
Change in unemployment when minimum wage increases by 10% : +2% to +6%
(Richard Burkhauser, Kenneth Couch et David Wittenberg, "Who Minimum Wage Increases Bite: An Analysis Using Monthly Data from the SIPP and CPS", Southern Economic Journal, 2000).
Percentage of injury when using different tactics used to resist criminals :
Resisting with a knife - 40.3% injury during a robbery, 29.5% injury during an assault
Non-violent resistance - 35.9% injury during a robbery, 25.5% injury during an assault
Do nothing - 24.7% injury during a robbery, 27.3% injury during an assault
Resisting with a gun - 17.4% injury during a robbery, 12.1% injury during an assault
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