Chinese Script v. English Statistics

The average number of strokes in a Chinese character is roughly 12.

The average number of strokes in a letter of the English alphabet is 1.9.

The average number of syllables in an English word is 1.66 (and 5 letters).

The average number of syllables in a Chinese word is roughly 2 (and 24 strokes).

The average number of words in an English sentence is 15-20.

The average number of words in a Chinese sentence is 25 (ballpark figure; see here)

Chinese has more than 100,000 characters.

English has 26 letters.

Total number of English words; over 600,000 (Oxford English Dictionary)

Total number of Chinese words: a little over 370,000 (Hànyǔ dà cídiǎn 漢語大詞典 [Unabridged dictionary of Sinitic])

From Language Log.