The Numbers That Add Up To 9/11
2,823: Number of people killed in the attack on the World Trade Center
2,390: Number of Americans killed in the bombing of Pearl Harbor
157: Number killed aboard the airplanes that felled the towers
291: Number of bodies found intact
69: Number of days subterranean fires burned in Manhattan after the attack
45: Number of people killed aboard Flight 93 when its passengers mounted a heroic effort to wrest control of the doomed plane
125: Number killed in the Pentagon
64: Number killed aboard Flight 77 when it slammed into the Pentagon
1,300: Number of children left orphaned after the attacks
100,000: Approximate number of jobs lost in Manhattan in the year following the attacks
1,800,000: Approximate number of jobs lost nationwide in the first year after 9/11
$500,000,000,000: Estimated losses in gross domestic product between Sept. 11, 2001, and
the end of 2003.
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