Were 600,000, 350,000 pr 70,000 engineers produced in 2004 in China, India and the United States, respectively?
"The numbers first drew major notice when they appeared in a Fortune magazine story on July 25, 2005.......These numbers attained seemingly impeccable credibility when they were featured in a press release last October about a new report from the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, a joint group from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and Institute of Medicine (which, with the National Research Council, are collectively known as the National Academies).......
"After an exhaustive study, researchers at Duke University also pummeled the numbers. In a December 2005 analysis, "Framing the Engineering Outsourcing Debate," they reported that the United States annually produces 137,437 engineers with at least a bachelor's degree while India produces 112,000 and China 351,537. That's more U.S. degrees per million residents than in either other nation."
There are lies, damn lies and statistics. (This quotation is apparently from Disraeli, but frequently attributed to Mark Twain, who was really Samuel Langhorne Clemens.)
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