by Rhoda Wilson, Expose News:
American author Michael Snyder sums up statistics from 2024 that are shocking. From the size of America’s national debt and the total of Americans’ household debt, to falling sperm counts and how much our brains are filling up with plastic.
44 Statistics From 2024 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
By Michael Synder, 31 December 2024
2024 was definitely one of the wildest years that any of us have ever experienced. During the past 12 months, Donald Trump was convicted by a New York jury, he was almost assassinated, he won the presidential election and he was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Nobody has ever had a year quite like that.
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Of course, 2024 was also a year of war. Israel battled Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, the government of Syria was overthrown by radical Islamists, long-range missiles provided by NATO started raining down on targets deep inside Russia and Russian forces stormed even deeper into eastern Ukraine.
2024 also brought us Hurricane Helene, a “Great American eclipse,” and “the comet of the century.”
Now here we are at the end of the year, and we are being told to brace ourselves for a bird flu pandemic. I have a feeling that the year ahead is going to be absolutely nuts, but for a moment I wanted to look back at the crazy year that we just went through. The following are 44 statistics from 2024 that are almost too crazy to believe.
#1 Over 155 million votes were cast in the 2024 presidential election. Donald Trump’s win in that election capped what many consider to be the greatest political comeback in US history.
#2 Nearly 11 billion dollars was spent during the 2024 election cycle. That is the most money ever spent on an election by a very wide margin.
#3 1.2 billion dollars was spent on political ads in the state of Pennsylvania alone.
#4 Before the election, one survey found that 79 per cent of Americans believed that the nation was on the wrong track.
#5 The US government is currently $36,144,183,375,647.43 in debt.
#6 If our politicians keep spending money at the current rate, the US government will be 51 trillion dollars in debt four years from now.
#7 Total US household debt is nearing 18 trillion dollars.
#8 The number of shoplifting incidents per year in the United States is up 93 per cent compared to pre-pandemic levels.
#9 On a single day in December, Joe Biden announced that he was commuting the prison sentences of nearly 1,500 criminals and he issued full pardons to 39 others.
#10 The US Census Bureau says that 37 per cent of Americans are having trouble even paying their most basic bills.
#11 According to Bank of America, almost a third of all households “spend more than 95% of their disposable income on necessities such as housing costs, groceries and utility bills.”
#12 The price of orange juice is up 327 per cent over the last 3 years.
#13 The average household in Miami spends 327 dollars during a single trip to the grocery store.
#14 It now takes more than $100,000 a year for a typical US household to live “the American Dream” in all 50 states, and in 29 US states it takes more than $150,000 a year.
#15 For the average person, it now costs 4.4 million dollars to live “the American Dream” over the course of a lifetime.
