Numbers

CONTRACEPTION

$51 million

Price of a program introduced by Brazil's President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, to subsidize birth-control pills. Under the plan, a month's supply of pills will cost about 20-c-

150,000

Estimated number of people who attended Pope Benedict XVI's May 13 Mass in Aparecida, north of Sao Paulo, during which he condemned abortion and contraception. Brazil, the world's largest Catholic country, recorded some 125 million followers in 2000

PIRACY

$39.6 billion

Estimated loss from software piracy suffered by the tech industry worldwide in 2006

$262

Estimated value of pirated software loaded onto a typical computer in Azerbaijan, the country that has the most pirated software

PRODUCT SAFETY

20%

Estimated percentage of Chinese-made toys and baby clothes that are below standards, as reported by China's consumer watchdog. Example: industrial waste was found stuffed inside some toys

$5.79 billion

Value of Chinese toys sold to the U.S. in 2005. China exports more toys than any other country

RELIGION

1.84%

Growth rate from 2000 to 2005 of Islam, the world's fastest- rising religion, which counts 1.3 billion adherents

19.65

Births per 1,000 people in Indonesia, which has the world's largest Muslim population, a rate 39% higher than that of the U.S.

Sources: BBC (2); the Economist (2); BBC; China Toy Association; Foreign Policy; CIA World Factbook