9/11’s Impact, By The Numbers

It was a day that changed the world – prompting the United States to enter into wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and putting a new face on the future of air travel worldwide.

The September 11th, 2001 attacks also had a significant impact on just about everything from border security and the economy to world politics and popular culture.

Here’s a look at how 9/11 affected the United States, by the numbers:

WAR

272: Deaths of U.S. servicemen and women in and around Afghanistan.

2,655: Deaths of U.S. servicemen and women in Iraq war.

21,000: Members of U.S. military now in Afghanistan.

145,000: Members of U.S. military now in Iraq.

1.35 million: Members of U.S. military deployed for Afghan and Iraq wars since 2001.

380,000: National Guard and Reserve members among those deployed for Afghan and Iraq wars.

CULTURE

11: Weeks the Sept. 11 commission’s final report was No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction.

$19 million: Movie ticket sales for “World Trade Center” on its first weekend in theaters. (Director Oliver Stone’s best weekend debut ever.)

$119 million: Ticket sales for Michael Moore’s anti-Bush documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11,” the top-grossing documentary of all time.

1,248: Books published related to the Sept. 11 attacks.

5: CIA’s ranking in a list of ideal places to work, based on a survey of college undergraduates at 207 universities. (FBI was 4th; State Department was 3rd; Disney and Google were top two vote-getters.)

PRICE TAGS

$2.50: Security fee paid by airline passengers for each leg of every trip flown.

$2.1 million: Average award from government compensation fund to families of those killed on Sept. 11.

$150 million: Assets of terrorists frozen worldwide.

$40 billion: Airline industry losses.

$432 billion: Approved by Congress for Iraq and the war on terrorism.

ENEMIES

1: Person in this country charged with a crime in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks.

6: Life sentences for Zacarias Moussaoui, who pleaded guilty to conspiring with the Sept. 11 hijackers.

42: Groups designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations by the secretary of state.

456: People charged in U.S. terrorism-related investigations.

91: Percent of terrorism cases recommended by FBI and other agencies that Justice Department lawyers declined to prosecute in the first eight months of the 2006 budget year.

455: Detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention center.

5,000: Suspected terrorists captured or killed outside United States with CIA help.

SENTRIES

2,161: FBI intelligence analysts today.

1,023: FBI intelligence analysts five years ago.

24: Hours of intelligence training provided to new FBI agents.

0: Hours of that training provided five years ago.

20,281: Intelligence Information Reports filed, sharing raw intelligence within government.

0: Number of shared raw intelligence reports five years ago.

16: Times the color-coded threat level has been raised or lowered by federal government.

18: Times undercover investigators with fake IDs breezed through U.S. border checkpoints in a test by Government Accountability Office.

42,000: Flights logged since military began combat air patrols over major cities.

40.3 million: Prohibited items confiscated from carryon bags since Transportation Security Agency took over airport screening in November 2002.

2-3: Extra minutes added to airline passenger screening process every time a prohibited item is detected.

ATTITUDES

46: Percent of people polled in the United States who are confident Osama bin Laden will be caught.

50: Percent who say the attacks affect the way they live their lives today.

60: Percent who think there will be more terrorism in the United States because the U.S. went to war in Iraq.

95: Percent who remember exactly where they were or what they were doing when they heard about Sept. 11 attacks.

REMEMBRANCE

5: Galleries in the Tribute Visitors Center at the World Trade Center site in New York, which will serve as a temporary memorial space until the official memorial opens in 2009.

184: Benches to be installed at Pentagon memorial, each over its own small reflecting pool and inscribed with a victim’s name.

500,000: Visitors to the field outside Shanksville, Pa., where United Flight 93 crashed.

Courtesy Associated Press