Age Demographics for Industry Workforces. Employment survey data indicates groups of public sector workers tend to be older than the workforce as a whole. In 2012, the median age for all workers employed nationwide was 42.3 years. The following data shows 2012 annual estimates of ages for employed persons, by industry.
guest2 Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:46 pm GMT. Average native speakers (and even unaverage) know nowhere near 60,000 words in English or any other language. The most careful studies show that even university-educated speakers top out at about 20,000 base words--and that's receptive, not active. For example, see the following study, which shows the average for university-educated speakers at about 17,000 base words:
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: According to the English Language Word Clock (see link below), there's a new word created every 98 minutes. That works out to about 14.7 words a day. By the way, English passed the 1 million word mark earlier today (June 10, 2009). http://www.languagemonitor.com/ However, there are 6,919 other languages spoken on the planet, each with hundreds of thousands of words. How languages acquire new words is interesting.