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Fashion Accessories: By The Numbers
- 3 percent: Percentage of conflict diamonds in the total rough-diamond trade, according to estimates from the diamond industry. Others put the number as high as 15% of the total trade.
- $7.9 billion: The market value of rough diamonds produced in 2001. These were then converted into jewelry worth $54.1 billion.
- 80 percent: The percentage of gold minded each year that goes into jewelry, out of 2500 tons.
- 6: The number of handbags the average woman in the U.S. owns. According to marketing research by The NPD Group, ownership is highly correlated with age: four in 10 women age 55 and above said they own seven or more handbags each.
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