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Davos by the Numbers

Facts and figures flow freely from the annual gathering in Switzerland.

Sharon Stone helped raise $1 million at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2005.Credit...Pierre Verdy/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The entry fee for the World Economic Forum in 1980.

The amount in $100 prepaid gift cards Mastercard gave out to attendees in 2002.

The year by which Bill Gates promised spam would be a thing of the past, at the 2004 Davos gathering.

The amount raised in five minutes for mosquito nets in Tanzania after Sharon Stone pledged her initial $10,000.

The fine for wearing a necktie at the 2004 conference, in a program that raised more than $16,000 for UNICEF.

The amount the French bank Société Générale announced during the 2008 gathering that one rogue trader had lost for the company.

The amount the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged at the 2010 gathering toward vaccinations in the world’s poorest countries.

The length of fencing and barbed wire the Swiss military installed at the 2011 conference.

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