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Feb 19, 2020
Number of weeks of federally mandated paid parental leave in U.S.:
0 1
Rank of the U.S. among 41 advanced countries surveyed in amount of paid parental leave:
41
Average number of weeks of paid parental leave (full-rate equivalent for both parents) among the other 40 countries:
34.7 2
Rank of the U.S. among 36 advanced countries surveyed in infant mortality rate:
4
Weeks of paid parental leave offered to civilian federal employees in the United States by the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act:
12 3
Percentage of adult U.S. population working as civilian federal employees in 2018:
0.8% 4
Number of nations with some form of government-mandated paid leave for new parents:
185 5
Number of nations that have none, not including the U.S.:
7 Ìý
Projected population of all seven of those countries, combined, in 2020:
9.8 million 6
Population of Michigan:
10 million 7
Share of all tweets created by the top 10% of U.S. adult Twitter users:
80% 8
Median tweets per month produced by the top 10%:
138 Ìý
Median number of tweets per month produced by Donald Trump in 2019:
562 9
Percentage of tweets mentioning politics created by the top 10% of tweeters:
97% 8
Tweets from all U.S. adults that mention politics:
13% Ìý
Tweets mentioning politics produced by users who are 50 years old or older:
73%
Tweets mentioning politics produced by users who strongly disapprove of Donald Trump:
72% Ìý
Sources: 1. , 2016 2. , data from OECD Health Statistics 3. () 4. and 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.