Aug 8 (Reuters) - Statistics about Beijing and the 2008 Olympic Games, which start on Aug. 8, 2008: THE GAMES 16 - days from opening to closing ceremony. 302 - events 21,600 - media accredited to the Games 70,000 - volunteers required 560,000 - applications to be volunteers (as of Aug. 1,

2007) 16,000 - athletes and officials accommodated in Olympic

Village 91,000 - seats in the "Bird's Nest" stadium 31 - venues in Beijing 6 - venues outside Beijing (Hong Kong, Qingdao,

Tianjin, Shenyang, Shanghai, Qinhuangdao) 7,000,000 - tickets to go on sale for the Games 5,000 yuan - ticket for opening ceremony ($661.4) 30 yuan - ticket for softball preliminaries ($3.97) 137,000 km - distance covered by pre-Games torch relay 24.9 Celsius - average temperature in Beijing in August 159.7 mm - average rainfall in Beijing in August - - THE CITY 15,810,000 - permanent residents of the city (2006) $6,210 - GDP per capita (2006) 19,978 yuan - urban disposable income per capita ($2,641,

2006) 4,680,000 - Internet users (End of 2006) 3,903,000 - visitors to Beijing (2006) 2,000,000+ - expected visitors to Beijing during Games 120bn yuan - investment in environmental improvement from

1998 to 2006 ($15.87 billion) 241 - "blue sky days" in 2006* 244 - "blue sky days" targeted for 2007* 110 - "blue sky days" in first six months of 2007* 65,000 - old buses and taxis to be taken off the road

before the Games 5,850,000 - tonnes of garbage produced in the city in 2006 2,300 - cars in Beijing, 1949 77,000 - cars in Beijing, 1978 3,000,000 - cars in Beijing, May 26, 2007 1,060 - new cars on the roads every day in Beijing 3,300,000 - estimated number of cars in Beijing by Aug.

2008 114 km - subway track in Beijing, 2007 198 km - subway track in Beijing by 2008 561 km - subway track in Beijing by 2015 1,100 - tonnes of pork consumed every day in Beijing 770 - tonnes of beef and lamb consumed everyday 3,000 - tonnes of rice and flour consumed every day 10,000,000 - bicycles in Beijing

* A "blue sky day" is when the air quality is rated "fairly good" (pollution reading: 51 to 100) or better. Sources: Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG), Beijing Municipal Government, Xinhua News Agency, CCTV.

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