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1 week ago | statista.com | Felix Richter

Nothing beats the convenience of having decades worth of music at your disposal at any time, any place, all at a monthly fee equivalent to the price of a single album. Considering this, the unstoppable rise of Spotify and other streaming services doesn’t come as surprise. What is a bit surprising is the pace at which people abandoned physical music.

2 weeks ago | statista.com | Katharina Buchholz

According to a newly released survey by YouGov and The Economist, Americans are most concerned about inflation out of a list of issues that are affecting their country. 91 percent of survey respondents said it was a very serious or somewhat serious problem, ahead of corruption (86 percent) and crime (78 percent). Consumers thereby rated inflation as much more of an issue than the trade deficit, which just 62 percent found serious.

2 weeks ago | statista.com | Thomas Hinton

This infographic shows the consumer ranking of discretionary expenses in 2025, by country.

2 weeks ago | statista.com | Katharina Buchholz

The Trump administration’s so-called reciprocal tariffs on countries around the world announced April 2 will raise government revenue in 2025 by $290 billion, or 0.95 percent of GDP, constituting the biggest tax hike since 1982. This is according to calculations by the Tax Foundation. While the U.S. government has claimed that tariffs are a tax on foreign entities, a tariff is paid by the importer, which could in the case of the new tariffs most likely be an American company.

2 weeks ago | statista.com | Katharina Buchholz

According to a Gallup poll, support for the death penalty in the United States has fallen to its lowest level in over 50 years in 2024. Although proponents were in the majority at 53 percent when the survey was last carried out in October, this number is still a far cry from earlier levels of support, which reached a high of 80 percent in 1994. Public sentiment understandibly changed as more and more U.S. states abolished the death penalty, beginning with New York in 2004 and New Jersey in 2007.