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Daily chart: disease. You are more likely to be killed by a non-communicable disease, like cancer or heart disease, than anything else. In 2008 they accounted for 63% of the 56m deaths worldwide.

Daily chart: where are the world’s busiest airline routes? Jeju, on the South Korean island of the same name, is not one of the country’s 20 biggest cities. Yet its allure as a tourist destination resulted in 9.9m passengers flying between Seoul and Jeju in 2011.

Daily chart: the world’s most expensive art. When Edvard Munch painted “The Scream” he did not have enough money to buy canvas, so the painting that sold on May 2nd at Sotheby’s for $120m is on cardboard. Yet the sale is only a record in nominal terms: adjusted for inflation, several more expensive paintings have been sold.

Daily chart: who eats the most meat? Pigs are the world’s most consumed animal. Although populous middle-income countries such as China are driving the worldwide demand for meat, it is mainly Western countries who still eat most per person.

Daily chart: who has the most plastic surgery? One in five women in Seoul has gone under the knife. There are seven times more buttock operations in Brazil than the top-25 country average, and five times more vaginal rejuvenations. In Greece, penis enlargements are performed ten times more often than the average.

Daily chart: military spending. America, Western Europe and Latin America all spent less on defence in 2011 than they did in 2010. But Russia’s spending increased by 9.3%, making it the third biggest spender worldwide, ahead of France and Britain.

Daily chart: internet economies. Britain’s internet economy is now bigger than its construction and education sectors. But Europe as a whole punches below its weight, mainly because its internet economy is held back by a lack of a single digital market.

Daily chart: which country consumes the most trees? The average American uses the paper equivalent of almost six 40-foot (12-metre) trees a year. In Belgium paper consumption is pushed up by the EU bureaucracy in Brussels.

Daily chart: capital punishment. Last year only four countries carried out public executions: Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea and Somalia. But there are still plenty of countries that impose the death penalty behind closed doors.

Daily chart: wine consumption by country. America glugged more still and sparkling wine than any other country last year. Together with the Chinese and Russians, Americans are driving growth in global wine consumption, which has increased by 3.5% since 2007.