Felix Richter is a data journalist at Statista.
Sales of new single-family houses dropped for the fourth consecutive month in the United States, as potential home buyers face a perfect storm of unfavorable conditions. According to figu...
In many European cities, investments in bike infrastructure and public transportation systems have been successful in enticing commuters to ditch their cars in favor of buses, trains or b...
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, forcing gyms to shutter and public transportation to suspend operation, millions of Americans re-discovered bicycles as a s...
自2018年美联储首次加息以来，德意志银行成为第一家预测明年美国出现经济衰退的主要银行。 该银行首席经济学家David Folkerts-Landau和前美联储官员Peter Hooper共同撰写的这份报告表示，“预计从明年年底到2024年初，美联储额外收紧货币政策，将对美国经济造成重大打击。” 经济学家预计，到明年年中，美国联邦基金利率将逐步提高到3.5%以上，这将会触...
The last week of April marks World Immunization Week, celebrated by the World Health Organization to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against diseases. Vaccines h...
In the wake of the first interest rate hike since 2018, Deutsche Bank became the first major bank to forecast a US recession for next year. The report co-authored by the bank’s chief econ...
Consumer prices in the United States continued to rise in February of 2022 after inflation had hit a 40-year high in January. The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) was ...
The U.S. economy bounced back from its pandemic-induced slump in 2021, growing at the fastest clip since 1984. According to the first preliminary estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of E...
In the wake of the unprecedented jobs crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, a new trend emerged in the U.S. labor market throughout 2021, as millions of Americans voluntarily lef...
As the world braces for the Omicron wave and booster campaigns are gaining steam, vaccine supply has once again come into focus in many countries. Germany’s new health secretary Karl Laut...
Consumer prices in the United States continued to rise in November, as inflation hit a 39-year high. The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) was up 6.8 percent compared t...
In a bid to phase out smoking in its society, New Zealand plans to ban the sale of tobacco to future generations and progressively raise the minimum age for legally buying tobacco. The ne...
While the world’s overall preparedness score in the 2021 Global Health Security Index isn't particularly good, it is markedly worse in the Prevention category. The global average score fo...
Amid fears that the newly discovered COVID-19 variant named Omicron could disrupt global travel once again, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) published its latest update on the state...
In the wake of the unprecedented jobs crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, a new trend has emerged in the U.S. labor market, as more and more Americans are quitting their jobs. ...
