Numbers of the Day

Average teacher base salary for a teacher with a bachelor’s degree and ten years of teaching experience in Oklahoma.

Source: Center for American Progress

Number of laboratory-confirmed cases of rabies in Oklahoma during 2013.

Source: Oklahoma State Department of Health

Number of women in the Oklahoma legislature out of 149 legislators, the 3rd lowest percentage in the nation.

Source: Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics

Number of beginning farmers in Oklahoma in 2012, down from 26,880 in 2002.

Source: USDA Census of Agriculture, via Farmland Information Center.

Percentage decline in Oklahoma’s teen birth rate from 2012 to 2013

Source: Oklahoma State Department of Health via the Tulsa World.

Number of Oklahoma high schools with a dropout rate above 40 percent for the Class of 2012.

Source: Oklahoma Educational Indicators Program

Total tonnage processed by the Port of Catoosa in 2013.

Source: The Journal Record

Average time patients with broken bones had to wait before receiving pain medication in Oklahoma emergency rooms.

Source: proPublica

Number of organ and tissue transplants in Oklahoma in 2013. As of March 7, there are 897 Oklahomans on a waiting list for a transplant.

Source: LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma

Number of utility-scale wind turbines in Oklahoma as of 2013.

Source: American Wind Energy Association