Median
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Globally, the
median
age of nuclear plants is now 27 years, so much of the learning from building the early plants has gone.
Yet
median
family income is barely above that of 1973.
Between 1950 and 1973, indeed, real
median
family income doubled.
Yet many of these same fans would almost surely argue that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, whose
median
compensation is around $10 million, are ridiculously overpaid.
The
median
age in the Middle East is in the mid-20s.
It is a symptom of America’s disgrace: pervasive discrimination against African Americans, reflected in
median
household income that is less than 60% that of white households.
The
median
income of a full-time male employee is lower than it was 40 years ago.
We found that it took a little more than seven years, on average, for the advanced economies (as they are defined today) to reach the pre-crisis level of income; the
median
recovery took about six years.
If the IMF projections are taken at face value, the
median
time it takes to reach the pre-crisis level of income for the 11-country group will be about nine years.
At its meeting in December, the Federal Open Market Committee’s
median
forecast for the federal funds rate at the end of 2019 was still a very low 2.9%.
The two indicators that best measure this are the old-age dependency ratio – the population above age 65 related to the active-age population – and the
median
age, which divides the entire population in two halves.
For example, Germany’s
median
age, currently 44, is set to reach 49 in 2050, while Italy’s
median
age should rise from 43 to 50.
The sharpest increase is expected to be in China, owing to its one-child policy, with the
median
age jumping from 35 to 49 by 2050.
By mid-century, the American
median
age will be 40 years – compared to 37 today – and the old-age dependency ratio will be below 40%.
Currently, the
median
price for a home in San Francisco is $1.5 million; in Kansas, a reliably Republican state, it is $187,000.
Median
real income in the US is below its level in 1989, a quarter-century ago;
median
income for full-time male workers is lower now than it was more than 40 years ago.
Before that, the post-war pattern of growth showed a much lower divergence between mean and
median
incomes than many economies are now experiencing.
In fact, his voters’ average annual income, about $72,000, is well above the US
median
of $56,000.
The new populism is often blamed on a generation or more of stagnant
median
wages.
This is all the more true today, when the
median
age across Muslim-majority countries stands at around 25 years.
According to a Gallup poll, trust in US leadership across 134 countries has dropped from a
median
of 48% in 2016 to 30% in 2018, plummeting by 40 points (or more) in Canada, Portugal, Belgium, and Norway.
Meanwhile, disapproval of US leadership has surged by 15 points, to a
median
score of 43%, compared with 36% for Russia, 30% for China, and 25% for Germany.
The
median
answer was sometimes 10% a year.
In Africa, the
median
age is now a mere 19 years and is projected to rise to around 28 years in 2050.
With few children and longer life expectancy, the
median
age of the population rises sharply in this forecast, from 39 years in 2005 to around 48 years in 2050.
The
median
rate of growth in developing-country per capita GNP between 1980 and 1998 was 0.0% - no ringing endorsement of Washington Consensus policies.
But there are four key “levers” that can reduce the cost of housing delivery by 20-50%, thereby making housing affordable (amounting to no more than 30% of total income) for households earning 50-80% of the
median
income in most cities.
In fact, while real wages fell by about 6% for the bottom 10% of the income distribution and grew by a paltry 5-6% for the
median
worker, they soared by more than 150% for the top 1%.
Average floor space per capita is 32.9 square meters, while
median
floor space per family in Hong Kong is just 48 square meters.
China has 287 prefecture-level cities, with a
median
population of 3.7 million and
median
per capita GDP of $5,800.
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