Interesting Statistics

Number of inmates in German prisons: 71,000*
Total German population: 82 million
That's roughly: 1 out of every 1154 people

Number of prison inmates in the State of Missouri: 30,600**
Total Missouri population: 5.7 milion
That's roughly: 1 out of every 185 people (or 2 people from each section of Powell Sympony Hall)

Europe bashers have been citing a recent statistic by the Harris polling group purporting to show that Americans are "more contented with their lives" than Europeans in general and Germans in particular.

It's not clear whether the Harris poll included some of the 2 million Americans sitting in the can. I imagine they would say that such folks are "stastically insignificant."


*2002 stats
**2004 stats