Figure It Out
| WRMEA Archives 1988-1993 - 1991 January |
Figure It Out
Compiled by Parker L. Payson
Percentage of the 37.8 million meals ordered by the Pentagon for US troops that require heating: 19[1]
Number of Cases of malnutrition treated by UNICEF health clinic officials in Amman, Jordan in 1989: 100[2]
Number of cases of malnutrition treated by same officials from January to September 1990: 611[3]
Average yearly pay of French Foreign Legionnaires on duty in Saudi Arabia: $48,000[4]
Average number of candidate’s who registered for each seat in Pakistan’s October 1990 Parliamentary elections: 6.5[5]
Average number of candidate’s who registered for each seat in November 1990 US Congressional elections: 1.9[6]
Number of 1991 calendars donated to US troops in Saudi Arabia as of November 16th, 1990: 13,000[7]
Estimated total oil revenue of Iran and Iraq since they began exporting oil (1919 and 1931 respectively): $418.4 billion[8]
Estimated cost of Iran-Iraq War: $1.096 trillion[9]
Average price of a barrel of oil on June 3rd, 1990: $17.50[10]
Average price of a barrel of oil on December 3rd, 1990: $29.15[11]
Break-even price of drilling a barrel of Texas oil: $13[12]
Number of tourists visiting Israel in October 1987: 104,000[13]
Number visiting Israel in October 1990: 49,000[14]
Size of Saudi Arabia: 839,996 square miles (approximately the size of all of the states east of the Mississippi River)[15]
Percentage of Saudi Arabia that is arable: 2 (approximately half the size of the state of Maine)[16]
Average number of people per automobile in Egypt: 72.3; In Iraq: 35.8; In Kuwait: 3.6; In the US: 1.3[17]
Average number of weavers operating in South Yemen prior to the 1962 revolution: 36,000; Today: 50[18]
Amount charged to British Embassy in Iraq by Iraqi government for housing 27 British hostages in downtown Baghdad hotel: $289,000[19]
Amount of International aid pledged to Egypt, Jordan and Turkey from August to December 1990: $5.3 billion[20]
Amount of International aid pledged to Egypt, Jordan and Turkey as of Nov. 27th, 1990: $1.3 billion[21]
Drop in the price of a barrel of oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange on October 22nd, 1990, the day a rumor spread that Saddam Hussein dreamt that the prophet Mohammed told him to point the missiles elsewhere: $5.16[22]
Percentage gap between US Army recruiting goals (6,070) and new recruits in August 1990: +8[23]
Percentage gap between US Army recruiting goals (6,022) and new recruits in November 1990: -32[24]
Number of barrels each day produced by OPEC member states in September 1990: 22.49 million[25]
Number of barrels of oil each day OPEC member states agreed to produce in July 1990: 22.491 million[26]
Number of the 3,000 Soviet scientists who have immigrated to Israel since January 1990 who have found jobs there: 160[27]
Amount per year that a Soviet family of three arriving in Israel receives from the Israeli government: $20,000[28]
Yearly per capita income in Israel: $8,650; in the Soviet Union: $3,000[29]
Number of countries that currently possess nuclear weapons capability: 9[30]
Number of countries expected to possess nuclear weapons within ten years: 40[31]
[1] Associated Press, US Defense Department
[2] United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Reuters
[3] Ibid.
[4] The Wall Street Journal
[5] Deutsche Presse-Agentur
[6] Federal Election Commissions
[7] US Defense Logistics Agency
[8] Kamran Mofid, The Economic Consequences of the Gulf War, the Middle East Report
[9] Ibid.
[10] Spot Price, West Texas Intermediate
[11] Ibid.
[12] American Petroleum Institute, Basic Petroleum Data Book
[13] Israeli Ministry of Tourism, Washington Jewish Week
[14] Ibid.
[15] The 1990 World Almanac
[16] Ibid.
[17] Ibid.
[18] United Nations Handicraft Industries Development Project, The Middle East Times
[19] British Embassy, NBC nightly News
[20] US Treasury Department, Gulf Crisis Financial Coordination Group
[21] US Embassies of Egypt, Jordan and Turkey
[22] New York Mercantile Exchange
[23] US Army, Army Times
[24] Ibid.
[25] Middle East Economic Survey, Bulletin of Council for Arab-British Understanding
[26] Ibid.
[27] The New York Times
[28] The Israeli Embassy
[29] The World Bank, World Tables, The 1990 World Almanac
[30] The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
[31] Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. William Crowe
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