9/11 by the Numbers
Death,
destruction, charity, salvation, war, money, real estate, spouses, babies,
and other September 11 statistics.
The
initial numbers are indelible: 8:46 a.m. and 9:02 a.m. Time the burning
towers stood: 56 minutes and 102 minutes. Time they took to fall: 12 seconds.
From there, they ripple out.
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Encyclopedia of 9/11
Total number
killed in attacks in New York: 2,753
Number of
firefighters and paramedics killed: 343
Number of NYPD
officers: 23
Number of Port
Authority police officers: 37
Number of WTC
companies in the towers that lost people: 128
Number of
employees who died in Tower One: 1,402
Number of
employees who died in Tower Two: 614
Number of
employees lost at Cantor Fitzgerald: 658
Number of U.S.
troops killed in Operation Enduring Freedom:2,108
Number of
nations whose citizens were killed in attacks: 115
Ratio of men to
women who died: 3:1
Age of the
greatest number who died: between 35 and 39
Bodies found
"intact": 291
Remains
found: 21,744
Number of
families who got no remains: 1,717
Estimated units
of blood donated to the New York Blood Center:36,000
Total units of
donated blood actually used: 258
Number of
people who lost a spouse or partner in the attacks:1,609
Estimated
number of children who lost a parent: 3,051
Percentage of
Americans who knew someone hurt or killed in the attacks: 20
FDNY
retirements, January–July 2001: 274
FDNY
retirements, January–July 2002: 661
Number of
firefighters on leave for respiratory problems by January 2002: 300
Number of
funerals attended by Rudy Giuliani in 2001: 200
Number of FDNY
vehicles destroyed: 98
Tons of debris
removed from site: 1,506,124
Days fires
continued to burn after the attack: 99
Jobs lost in
New York owing to the attacks: 146,100
Days the New
York Stock Exchange was closed: 6
Point drop in
the Dow Jones industrial average when the NYSE reopened: 684.81
Days after 9/11
that the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan: 26
Total number of
civil rights complaints reported to the Council on American-Islamic
Relations nationwide from 2002 to 2008:12,962
Economic loss
to New York in month following the attacks: $105 billion
Estimated cost
of cleanup: $600 million
Total FEMA money
spent on the emergency: $970 million
Estimated
amount donated to 9/11 charities: $1.4 billion
Estimated
amount of insurance paid worldwide related to 9/11:$40.2 billion
Estimated
amount of money needed to overhaul lower-Manhattan subways: $7.5
billion
Amount of money
granted by U.S. government to overhaul lower-Manhattan subways: $4.55
billion
Estimated
amount of money raised for funds dedicated to NYPD and FDNY
families: $500 million
Percentage of
total charity money raised going to FDNY and NYPD families: 25
Average benefit
already received by each FDNY and NYPD widow:$1 million
Percentage
increase in law-school applications from 2001 to 2002: 17.9
Percentage
increase in Peace Corps applications from 2001 to 2002: 40
Percentage
increase in CIA applications from 2001 to 2002: 50
Number of songs
Clear Channel Radio considered "inappropriate" to play after
9/11: 150
Number of
mentions of 9/11 at the 2002 Oscars: 26
Apartments in
lower Manhattan eligible for asbestos cleanup:23,000
Number of
apartments whose residents have requested cleanup and testing: 4,167
Number of
Americans who changed their 2001 holiday-travel plans from plane to
train or car: 1.4 million
Estimated
number of New Yorkers suffering from post-traumatic-stress disorder as a
result of 9/11: 422,000
Updated
September 2012
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Encyclopedia of 9/11