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Some Interesting facts the New York City Population!

Here are some interesting facts about the New York City population:

·         With a July 2015 population of 8,550,405, New York is the most populous city in the United States, more than twice the size of the second largest city, Los Angeles.

·         About 1 in every 38 people living in the United States resides in New York City.

·         New York has the highest population density of any major city in the United States, with over 27,000 people per square mile.

·         Over 3 million of New York City’s residents are foreign-born; over one-quarter arrived in 2000 or later.

·         Nearly 2 million New Yorkers are under the age of 18.

·         New York City has more people than 40 of the 50 U.S. states.

·         New York City comprises over two-fifths of New York State’s entire population.

·         New York City has grown by over 1 million people since 1990.

·         The 2014 median age in New York City was 35.8 years, almost two years lower than the national median of 37.7 years.

·         Over one-third of the population 25 and over in New York City has a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared to 30 percent nationally.

·         There are nearly 400,000 more women than men in New York.

·         There is a birth in New York City every 4.4 minutes.

·         There is a death in New York City every 9.1 minutes.

·         The borough of Brooklyn on its own would be the 4th largest city in the United States; Queens would also rank 4th nationally.

·         Approximately two-thirds of dwelling units in New York are renter-occupied, over twice the national average.

·         The average commute for New Yorkers is just over 40 minutes, about 14 minutes longer than the national average.

·         New York City has the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia.

·         More persons of West Indian ancestry live in New York City than any city outside of the West Indies.

·         New York has the largest Puerto Rican population of any city in the world.

·         More Dominicans live in New York than any other city in the world, barring Santo Domingo.

·         Over 2.4 million Hispanics reside in New York City, more than any other city in the United States.

·         The Black nonhispanic population of New York City numbered 1.89 million in 2014, more than double the count in any other U.S. city.

·         Half of all New Yorkers speak a language other than English at home.

·         Over 200 languages are spoken in New York City.

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Source: https://on.nyc.gov/2zE0JNK

How much people spent online on BLACK FRIDAY 2017?

Answer: 

$5 Billion in 24 hours!

5 Largest Libraries in the world

Answer: 

• British Library
• Library of the U.S. Congress
• Library and Archives, Canada
• The New York Public Library 
• Russian State Library 

Largest Public Library in the world

Answer: 

British Library is the largest library in the world!
According to British Library's  facts and figure,

• We receive a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland
• The collection includes well over 150 million items, in most known languages
• 3 million new items are added every year
• We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents
• The Sound Archive keeps sound recordings from 19th-century cylinders to CD, DVD and MD recordings
• We house 8 million stamps and other philatelic items
• All this requires over 625 km of shelves, and grows by 12 km every year
• If you see 5 items each day, it would take you over 80,000 years to see the whole of the collection
• The world's earliest dated printed book, the Diamond Sutra, is sometimes on display in our exhibition galleries alongside many other treasures
• We have on-site space for over 1,200 Readers
• Over 16,000 people use the collections each day (on site and online)
• Online catalogues, information and exhibitions can be found on this website
• We operate the world's largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world
In depth
Access
• The British Library serves business and industry, researchers, academics and students, in the UK and world-wide
• Each year:
o Six million searches are generated by the British Library online catalogue
o Nearly 400,000 visit our Reading Rooms
• Over 100 million items have been supplied to users all over the world
Collections
Treasures include:
• Magna Carta
• Lindisfarne Gospels
• Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook
• The Times first edition from 18 March 1788
• Beatles manuscripts
• The recording of Nelson Mandela's Rivonia trial speech
Holdings include:
• Material over 3,000 years old (Chinese oracle bones) - and today's newspapers
• 310,000 manuscript volumes: from Jane Austen to James Joyce; Handel to the Beatles
• 60 million patents
• Over 4 million maps
• Over 260,000 journal titles
The building at St Pancras:
• The largest public building constructed in the UK in the 20th century
• The basements extend to a depth of 24.5 metres
• A total floor area of over 112,000 sq metres spread over 14 floors - 9 above ground, 5 below
• 10 million bricks and 180,000 tonnes of concrete were needed to complete the building
• Awarded grade I listed building status in August 2015
The buildings at Boston Spa
• Originally an ordnance factory
• Specifically designed for document delivery service processes
• Over 100km of shelving housing a collection devoted to interlibrary loan.

Source: http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/quickinfo/facts/