Numbers of note

33%: The rise in US bankruptcies for the year ended March 31, 2009

400 million the number of chronically-hungry people in South Asia, the region’s highest level in 40 years, according to a UNICEF report

Rs 1,000 cr the total value of legal and other claims that software giant Satyam Computer Services is facing at present

25% the percentage of women in multinational companies in India. China has 42.9 per cent women in similar jobs, according to a study