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06/13/10 1:25 PM

#143131 RE: grajekk #143129

From the previous website..
New mines are laid at a rate 25 times faster than they are being cleared. New technologies will make it easier to find and locate mines, but can't prevent their placement. As long as nations continue to use landmines, these devices will be a danger for civilians as well as soldiers.

Landmines by the Numbers
33 billion - Cost in U.S. dollars to remove every mine in the world, if no others are planted
250 million - Stockpiled landmines worldwide
110 million - Landmines in the ground worldwide
2.5 million - New landmines laid each year
1 million - People killed or maimed by anti-personnel mines since 1975
100,000 - Americans killed or injured by landmines in the 1900s
26,000 - People killed or maimed annually by landmines
1,000 - Cost in U.S. dollars to remove one landmine
350 - Minimum number of different types of landmines
70 - Number of people killed or injured daily by landmines
33 - Percent of U.S. casualties caused by landmines during the Vietnam War
3 - Cost in U.S. dollars of a cheap landmine