The statistic shows a forecast for the installed base of virtual reality (VR) headsets by platform worldwide from 2015 to 2020. In 2015, the installed base of mobile VR headsets is expected to reach * million units.

In 2024, the mobile ecosystem employed a total of ** million people globally, of which ** million were directly employed in the mobile industry and ** million were employed in indirectly generated jobs.

The number of social media users in the United States was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2029 by in total 26 million users (+8.55 percent). After the ninth consecutive increasing year, the social media user base is estimated to reach 330.07 million users and therefore a new peak in 2029. Notably, the number of social media users of was continuously increasing over the past years.The shown figures regarding social media users have been derived from survey data that has been processed to estimate missing demographics.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).

Sikhism is a religion that originated on the Indian subcontinent during the fifteenth century. Sikhs follow the teachings of 'gurus', who descend from the first guru Guru Naruk who established the faith. Followers of Sikhism are monotheists, believing in only one god, and other core beliefs include the need to meditate, the importance of community and communal living, and the need to serve humanity selflessly (or 'seva'). Sikhism and the British Empire In total, there are around 26 million Sikhs worldwide, and over 24 million of these live in India. Outside of India, the largest Sikh populations are mostly found in former territories of the British Empire - the UK and Canada both have Sikh populations of over half a million people. Migration from India to other parts of the British Empire was high in the 19th century, due to the labor demands of relatively newer colonies, as well as those where slavery had been abolished. These countries also remain popular destinations for Sikh migrants today, as many are highly trained and English-speaking. Other regions with significant Sikh populations Italy also has a sizeable Sikh population, as many migrated there after serving there in the British Army during WWI, and they are now heavily represented in Italy's dairy industry. The Sikh population of Saudi Arabia is also reflective of the fact that the largest Indian diaspora in the world can now be found in the Middle East - this is due to the labor demands of the fossil fuel industries and their associated secondary industries, although a large share of Indians in this part of the world are there on a temporary basis.

As per Cognitive Market Research's latest published report, the Global Blood Banking and Blood Products market size will be USD 27,301.61 Million by 2028. Blood Banking and Blood Products Industry's Compound Annual Growth Rate will be 7.30% from 2023 to 2030.

Europe Blood Banking and Blood Products market size is projected USD 8,692.83 Million by 2028. 

What is Driving Blood Banking and Blood Products Industry Growth?

Increasing Prevalence of Chronic Diseases, Growing Number of Covid-19 Cases and Combined Technological Advances

Increasing prevalence of chronic diseases is one of the major factors that are enhancing the demand of blood products. For example; there is high prevalence of diseases such as HIV infection, malaria, tuberculosis and dengue results. As the HIV disease continues to be a serious health issue for parts of the globe. According to World Health Organization (WHO); there were about 1.7 million new cases of HIV in 2018. About 37.9 million people were living with HIV around the world in 2018 and 24.5 million they were receiving medicines to treat HIV called antiretroviral therapy (ART) and there were an estimated 38.0 million patients living with HIV at the end of 2019 and 26 million of them were receiving medicines to treat HIV called (ART) antiretroviral therapy, according to the center of disease control and prevention.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cancer causes 9 million deaths worldwide each year. Overall, NCDs cause 1 million deaths, or 71% of global deaths, according to the WHO, 1,735,530 new cancer cases were reported in the U.S. in 2018 alone; this figure is projected to reach 23.6 million by 2030. And, number of diabetes patients are also increasing. For instance; approximately 463 million adults are living with diabetes across the globe, according to the latest 2019 data from the International Diabetes Federation. Platelet transfusions, used to prevent and treat bleeding, are given to patients undergoing chemotherapy, hematopoietic progenitor-cell and solid-organ transplantation, and surgery, as well as those with hematologic disease, sepsis, or other conditions that cause thrombocytopenia.

In addition, increasing number of cases of Covid-19 is also augmenting the demand for blood products. Thus, with an outbreak of Covid-19 all over the world everyone is trying to find a cure or a vaccine. There is an increase in the prevalence of hematological diseases which further drives the growth of blood banking and blood products market. Thus, increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, growing number of covid-19 cases and combined technological advances are some of the major factors driving the growth of global blood banking and blood products market.

Restraints for Blood Banking and Blood Products Market

Wastage of donated blood and stringent rules & regulations (Access Detailed Analysis in the Full Report Version)

Opportunities for Blood Banking and Blood Products Market

Rising Healthcare Expenditure (Access Detailed Analysis in the Full Report Version)

Introduction of Blood Banking and Blood Products

Blood Banks are the centers or the organizations where the blood is collected and stored before it is used for transfusions. The blood bank may be a standalone organization or in association with hospitals. The blood bank also carried out other process such as recordkeeping, blood typing, testing for infectious diseases, cross matching, medical or legal evaluation of blood, storage, and transportation of blood. The blood banking is the terms which is generally related to the blood bank. The blood banking is the term used for the all the process that take place in the lab to preserve the donated blood, or blood products. It is also involved in the activities such as collecting, separating, and storing blood, before they are transfused or used for other medical procedures.

The blood consists of various component which are used as whole or as a separate entity for treating the various medical disease conditions. The one person can also help the multiple people by donating the different component to different person. The transfusable components that are derived from donated blood are red cells, platelets, plasma, cryo precipitated AHF (cryo), and granulocytes. An additional component, like white cells, is often removed from donated blood before transfusion.

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In 2024, about 9.8 million people around the world were internally displaced due to disasters, compared to a high of 42.4 million in 2010. In Afghanistan alone, 1.3 million people were displaced due to natural disasters.

Over 26 million people speak Saraiki worldwide, with a concentration in South Punjab and a few districts in Sindh. Calligraphers write Saraiki in an extremely complex manner. For the most part, most languages in the world have highly developed optical character recognition systems; however, Saraiki does not. In order to construct a sophisticated optical character recognition system, Saraiki is still in need of researchers. This dataset is made up of over 50,000 scanned images of Saraiki language characters. These are gathered from professors and students at Pak-Austria Fachhochschule: Institute of Applied Science and Technology (PAF-IAST). The dataset is open for use in academic research.

In October 2024, around 28.05 million people were employed on a part-time basis in the United States. This value is not seasonally adjusted. In line with the definition of the BLS, part-time workers are persons who usually work less than 35 hours per week.

COVID-19 rate of death, or the known deaths divided by confirmed cases, was over ten percent in Yemen, the only country that has 1,000 or more cases. This according to a calculation that combines coronavirus stats on both deaths and registered cases for 221 different countries. Note that death rates are not the same as the chance of dying from an infection or the number of deaths based on an at-risk population. By April 26, 2022, the virus had infected over 510.2 million people worldwide, and led to a loss of 6.2 million. The source seemingly does not differentiate between "the Wuhan strain" (2019-nCOV) of COVID-19, "the Kent mutation" (B.1.1.7) that appeared in the UK in late 2020, the 2021 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) from India or the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) from South Africa.

Where are these numbers coming from?

The numbers shown here were collected by Johns Hopkins University, a source that manually checks the data with domestic health authorities. For the majority of countries, this is from national authorities. In some cases, like China, the United States, Canada or Australia, city reports or other various state authorities were consulted. In this statistic, these separately reported numbers were put together. Note that Statista aims to also provide domestic source material for a more complete picture, and not to just look at one particular source. Examples are these statistics on the confirmed coronavirus cases in Russia or the COVID-19 cases in Italy, both of which are from domestic sources. For more information or other freely accessible content, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

A word on the flaws of numbers like this

People are right to ask whether these numbers are at all representative or not for several reasons. First, countries worldwide decide differently on who gets tested for the virus, meaning that comparing case numbers or death rates could to some extent be misleading. Germany, for example, started testing relatively early once the country’s first case was confirmed in Bavaria in January 2020, whereas Italy tests for the coronavirus postmortem. Second, not all people go to see (or can see, due to testing capacity) a doctor when they have mild symptoms. Countries like Norway and the Netherlands, for example, recommend people with non-severe symptoms to just stay at home. This means not all cases are known all the time, which could significantly alter the death rate as it is presented here. Third and finally, numbers like this change very frequently depending on how the pandemic spreads or the national healthcare capacity. It is therefore recommended to look at other (freely accessible) content that dives more into specifics, such as the coronavirus testing capacity in India or the number of hospital beds in the UK. Only with additional pieces of information can you get the full picture, something that this statistic in its current state simply cannot provide.

This statistic displays a projection of the number of less uninsured in the United States due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from 2015 to 2025. By 2018, there will be some 26 million less uninsured nonelderly people due to the implementation of the ACA.

This statistic shows the number of active Twitter users in Japan from 2013 to 2016, with forecasts up until 2021. In 2021, the microblogging site is projected to reach approximately **** million monthly active users in the region, up from about ** million users in 2013.

As of January 2024, there were 45.34 million active internet users in South Africa. According to the same report, close to 26 million internet users in the country used social media, around 42.8 percent of the total population. The future of internet usage in South Africa: projected growth and mobile dominance South Africa's digital population grew significantly during the last decade. In 2023, almost 44 million people were connected to the internet, up from around 25 million in 2013. Furthermore, the majority of the South African population, specifically 78.7 percent, utilized mobile devices to access the internet in 2022. This proportion will increase to over 90 percent by 2027. Additionally, the number of mobile internet users in South Africa was almost 47.8 million in 2022. Social media usage in South Africa: popularity and demographics The country's most popular social media platform during the third quarter of 2022 was Meta’s instant messaging application WhatsApp. Facebook and Instagram ranked second and third among South African internet users. Moreover, a closer look into the demographics of social media users in the country reveals that people between the ages of 25 to 34 years made up the highest share of users in South Africa.

Social network X/Twitter is particularly popular in the United States, and as of February 2025, the microblogging service had an audience reach of 103.9 million users in the country. Japan and the India were ranked second and third with more than 70 million and 25 million users respectively. Global Twitter usage As of the second quarter of 2021, X/Twitter had 206 million monetizable daily active users worldwide. The most-followed Twitter accounts include figures such as Elon Musk, Justin Bieber and former U.S. president Barack Obama. X/Twitter and politics X/Twitter has become an increasingly relevant tool in domestic and international politics. The platform has become a way to promote policies and interact with citizens and other officials, and most world leaders and foreign ministries have an official Twitter account. Former U.S. president Donald Trump used to be a prolific Twitter user before the platform permanently suspended his account in January 2021. During an August 2018 survey, 61 percent of respondents stated that Trump's use of Twitter as President of the United States was inappropriate.

In 2022, of the total 25.6 million uninsured in the United States, some 5.6 million were adults aged 26-34 years, the highest number of all age groups. This statistic shows the number of non-elderly people without health insurance in the U.S. in 2022, sorted by age group.

As of 2022, nearly ** million people in Tanzania lived in extreme poverty, with the poverty threshold at **** U.S. dollars a day. Roughly 100,000 people were pushed into poverty compared to 2021, possibly a remaining effect of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The headcount was, however, forecast to decrease in the coming years. By 2025, **** million Tanzanians are projected to live on a maximum of **** U.S. dollars per day.

As of April 26, 2023, the number of both confirmed and presumptive positive cases of the COVID-19 disease reported in the United States had reached over 104 million with over 1.1 million deaths reported among these cases.

Coronavirus deaths by age in the U.S. Daily new cases of COVID-19 hit record highs in the United States at the beginning of 2022. Underlying health conditions can worsen cases of coronavirus, and case fatality rates among confirmed COVID-19 patients increase with age. The highest number of deaths from COVID-19 have been among those aged 85 years and older, with this age group accounting for over 300 thousand deaths.

Where has this coronavirus come from? Coronaviruses are a large group of viruses transmitted between animals and people that cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases. The novel coronavirus that is currently infecting humans was already circulating among certain animal species. The first human case of this new coronavirus strain was reported in China at the end of December 2019. The coronavirus was named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and its associated disease is known as COVID-19.

As of February 2025, India had a total of 413.85 million Instagram users, the largest Instagram audience in the world. The United States had 171.7 million users, and Brazil had 140.7 million. Indonesia, Turkey, and Japan ranked in fourth, fifth and sixth position, respectively. Kazakhstan is the leading country for Instagram audience reach, with 86.2 percent of the population using the social media service. Turkey came in second, with a penetration rate of 85.5 percent and Uruguay ranked third, with 87.1 percent, followed closely by the UAE, Brazil, and Bahrain. It took Instagram 11.2 years to reach the milestone of 2 billion monthly active users worldwide. WhatsApp, also owned by Meta, took 11 years, whilst Facebook took 13.3 years and YouTube took just over 14 years. Instagram’s demographics in the United States As of March 2025, Instagram was the fourth most visited social media service in the United States, after Facebook, Pinterest and X. Out of TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat, TikTok was the most used of all three platforms by Generation Z. Overall, 57 percent of Gen Z social media users used Instagram in 2021, down from 61 percent in 2020 and 64 percent in 2019. Instagram finds most popularity with those in the 25 to 34 year age group, and as of January 2025, roughly 28.3 of all users in the United States belonged to this age group. The social media app was also more likely to be used by women. Most followed accounts on Instagram Instagram’s official account had the most followers as of April 2024 with over 672 million followers. Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo (@cristiano) had over 628 million followers on the platform, while the Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi (@leomessi) had over 502 million followers. The Instagram accounts of the American singer and actress Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) and the media personality and makeup mogul Kylie Jenner (@kyliejenner) had over 400 million followers each.

In June 2022, it was estimated that around 7.3 percent of Australians were aged between 25 and 29, and the same applied to people aged between 30 and 34. All in all, about 55 percent of Australia’s population was aged 35 years or older as of June 2022. At the same time, the age distribution of the country also shows that the share of children under 14 years old was still higher than that of people over 65 years old. A breakdown of Australia’s population growth Australia is the sixth-largest country in the world, yet with a population of around 26 million inhabitants, it is only sparsely populated. Since the 1970s, the population growth of Australia has remained fairly constant. While there was a slight rise in the Australian death rate in 2022, the birth rate of the country decreased after a slight rise in the previous year. The fact that the birth rate is almost double the size of its death rate gives the country one of the highest natural population growth rates of any high-income country.
National distribution of the population Australia’s population is expected to surpass 28 million people by 2028. The majority of its inhabitants live in the major cities. The most populated states are New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. Together, they account for over 75 percent of the population in Australia.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the area of modern-day Italy, at the time a collection of various states and kingdoms, was estimated to have a population of nineteen million, a figure which would grow steadily throughout the century, and by the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861, the population would rise to just over 26 million.

Italy’s population would see its first major disruption during the First World War, as Italy would join the Allied Forces in their fight against Austria-Hungary and Germany. In the First World War, Italy’s population would largely stagnate at 36 million, only climbing again following the end of the war in 1920. While Italy would also play a prominent role in the Second World War, as the National Fascist Party-led country would fight alongside Germany against the Allies, Italian fatalities from the war would not represent a significant percentage of Italy’s population compared to other European countries in the conflict. As a result, Italy would exit the Second World War with a population of just over 45 million.

From this point onwards the Italian economy started to recover from the war, and eventually boomed, leading to increased employment and standards of living, which facilitated steady population growth until the mid-1980s, when falling fertility and birth rates would cause growth to largely cease. From this point onward, the Italian population would remain at just over 57 million, until the 2000s when it began growing again due to an influx of migrants, peaking in 2017 at just over 60 million people. In the late 2010s, however, the Italian population began declining again, as immigration slowed and the economy weakened. As a result, in 2020, Italy is estimated to have fallen to a population of 59 million.

Globally, about 25 percent of the population is under 15 years of age and 10 percent is over 65 years of age. Africa has the youngest population worldwide. In Sub-Saharan Africa, more than 40 percent of the population is below 15 years, and only three percent are above 65, indicating the low life expectancy in several of the countries. In Europe, on the other hand, a higher share of the population is above 65 years than the population under 15 years. Fertility rates The high share of children and youth in Africa is connected to the high fertility rates on the continent. For instance, South Sudan and Niger have the highest population growth rates globally. However, about 50 percent of the world’s population live in countries with low fertility, where women have less than 2.1 children. Some countries in Europe, like Latvia and Lithuania, have experienced a population decline of one percent, and in the Cook Islands, it is even above two percent. In Europe, the majority of the population was previously working-aged adults with few dependents, but this trend is expected to reverse soon, and it is predicted that by 2050, the older population will outnumber the young in many developed countries. Growing global population As of 2025, there are 8.1 billion people living on the planet, and this is expected to reach more than nine billion before 2040. Moreover, the global population is expected to reach 10 billions around 2060, before slowing and then even falling slightly by 2100. As the population growth rates indicate, a significant share of the population increase will happen in Africa.