Some of the world’s most fun factoids are statistic based truisms that start with “about one half of…”, this section is a list of those.


Factoids tagged with "About One Half of…"

About Half of Americans Own Stocks Fact

According to a 2016 Gallup poll about half of American adults own stocks and about half don’t. This is down since 2007 when around 65% of American adults owned stocks.

Malaria Killed Half the People Who Have Ever Lived Myth

Malaria would have needed to kill an average of about 5 ½ million a year to kill half of everyone ever, we don’t have data to prove this. However, we know almost half the world’s population is at risk of Malaria and it kills up to a million a year today.