--- description: 7.2% Growth rate of the U.S. economy in the last fiscal quarter, the fastest since 1984 9 million Number of Americans listed as unemployed at the end of the same period, a rate of 6.1% 2 hrs. Average... title: Numbers: Nov. 10, 2003 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Numbers: Nov. 10, 2003 by [TIME](/author/time/) Nov 10, 2003 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Nov 10, 2003 5:00 AM CUT 7.2% Growth rate of the U.S. economy in the last fiscal quarter, the fastest since 1984 9 million Number of Americans listed as unemployed at the end of the same period, a rate of 6.1% 2 hrs. Average amount of time each day that children 6 and younger sit in front of a television set, computer or video game 39 min. Time that children spend reading or being read to 2,792 Official death toll from the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, recorded in almanacs and history books 2,752 Revised tally released last week after an investigation by a New York City task force $46.9 billion Donations to the country’s largest charities in 2002, compared with $47.5 billion in 2001, the first drop in a dozen years 26.5% Decline in giving to arts and cultural organizations 10.4% Increase in giving to international relief groups Sources: U.S. Departments of Commerce and Labor; Kaiser Foundation; New York City medical examiner; Chronicle of Philanthropy Numbers: Nov. 10, 2003 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6670024/numbers-nov-10-2003/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6670024/numbers-nov-10-2003/"},"headline":"Numbers: Nov. 10, 2003","datePublished":"2003-11-10T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-27T07:58:38.678Z","description":"7.2% Growth rate of the U.S. economy in the last fiscal quarter, the fastest since 1984 9 million Number of Americans listed as unemployed at the end of the same period, a rate of 6.1% 2 hrs. Average...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6670024/numbers-nov-10-2003/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6670024/numbers-nov-10-2003/","name":"Numbers: Nov. 10, 2003"}}]}] ```