{"id":1148,"date":"2006-10-01T15:00:48","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T22:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2006-10-01T15:00:48","modified_gmt":"2006-10-01T22:00:48","slug":"no-really-how-many-americans-have-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/01\/no-really-how-many-americans-have-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"No really, how many Americans have passports?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you keeping score at home, I&#8217;ve been on an informal quest for the last few years to figure out how many Americans have passports. <\/p>\n<p>Last I <a href=\"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=977\">blogged<\/a> about it, I discovered a <i>Slate<\/i> article, which said there were 44 million passports in existence. Howver, before that, I <a href=\"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=741\">saw<\/a> in a <i>Computerworld<\/i> article from 2005 that said that there are 57 milion passports in circulation.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I read in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/01\/travel\/01prac.html?pagewanted=print\">The New York Times<\/a><\/i> that &#8220;The State Department estimates that 73 percent of Americans now lack passports.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>If you do the math based on the fact that according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/us.html\">CIA factbook<\/a>, the US has a population of 298 million (and change) &#8212; then that means that 27 percent of 298 million equals 80,460,000 Americans who have passports. <\/p>\n<p>Did 20 million more Americans really get passports in the last year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you keeping score at home, I&#8217;ve been on an informal quest for the last few years to figure out how many Americans have passports. Last I blogged about it, I discovered a Slate article, which said there were 44 million passports in existence. Howver, before that, I saw in a Computerworld article from 2005 that said that there are 57 milion passports in circulation. Today, I read in The New York Times that &#8220;The State Department estimates&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-domestic-affairs","category-foreign-affairs","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-iw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}