2010: The Year in Numbers

By Greg Scoblete
December 30, 2010

2010 by the numbers

Here's a look at some of the numbers behind 2010:

27,000: The number of suspected drug gang members arrested in Mexico

12,000: The number of people murdered in Mexico as part of the country's drug war.

57: The number of reporters killed around the world.

708: The number of coalition forces killed in Afghanistan.

1,550: The number of strategic nuclear warheads the U.S. and Russia will be allowed to maintain under the terms of the New START treaty.

985: The estimated number of people killed by U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan in 2010.

222,000,000,000: The cost, in U.S. dollars, of economic losses from both man-made and natural disasters.

260,000: The approximate number of people killed by severe catastrophes.

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