Currently there is a heat wave named Lucifer that's bringing scorching hot temperatures to southern and central europe. Maybe that's the reason why Eurostat published some days ago statistics about the largest producers of Ice cream in the continent. It's not surprising that the "Gelato" country is on top of the list, but I was surprised to learn Germany was the second one in the rankings.

Yesterday was World No Tobacco Day, an event established by the member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1987. This day serves as a good reminder of global tobacco consumption. The dataset available in Wikipedia shows that China is the biggest consumer in the world. Unfortunately, this consumption is on the rise in developing nations.

Eurostats has an interesting dataset showing the percentage of the population experiencing depression in Europe. The map above shows that Hungary, Portugal, and Sweden are the countries with a higher percentage of the population experiencing depressive symptoms.

A breakdown by sex shows that Portugal is the country with the highest percentage of the female population experiencing depression.

Eurostats has an interesting dataset with the time spent exercising per country in Europe. It's not surprising that the countries that exercise 2.5h or more are the Scandinavian countries: Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Way to go Scandinavia!

Wikipedia provides an article containing a list of the top 100 sites in the world in terms of traffic, using Alexa and SimilarWeb as sources. The chart above shows the count of site types based on that list, and Search Engines is the top category by far. Now, it's interesting to see how this finding is due to the massive popularity of Google around the world: Its localized version in all these countries makes it to the top 100 list:

The USA is indeed a country of immigrants. In 2013, 41M people out of the total 316M population were foreign born, coming from all over the world. The top countries from that list are Mexico, China, India, Philippines, and Vietnam, but it's a true multinational and multicultural society that should be embraced!

I knew Colombia was one of the top flower exporters in the world, but a couple of days ago with all the flowers going around for St. Valentin's day I wondered who was the top exporter overall. Not surprisingly, it's the Netherlands with a whooping ~40% market share of the world exports.