Category Archives: Stats

Creative Cities

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Richard

Found this last week… Between 1551 and 1801 the population of London grew from 80,000 to 865,000. This was despite the fact that during this period overall deaths exceeded births in the capital.  This can partly be seen as London … Continue reading →

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Jottings

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Richard

The blog is getting to be a bit of a struggle with two new books, both with the same deadline. Fortunately one is done, but I keep having ideas for things that should perhaps be included. And don’t anyone mention … Continue reading →

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Healthcare spending

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Richard

Around 5% of the US population consumes almost 50% of US spending on health. This is according to a report from the oddly named National Institute for Healthcare Management Foundation.

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Too Much Stuff

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Richard

Are you suffering from stuffocation? There are 800 self-storage facilities in the UK, the same number as the whole of the rest of Europe put together. What are people keeping in there? Why can’t they just get rid of it? … Continue reading →

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Cost of Cyber Crime

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Richard

Cyber crime costs the UK economy £27 billion per year, £21 billion of which is carried by business. UK Department of Cyber Security.

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Amount of information now being produced

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Richard

Killer statistic: Every two days we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003. – Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google. Question is, of course, what are we going to do with all this information?

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Demographic realities

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Richard

Almost 33% of the US workforce will be aged 50+ by the year 2012. Ref: The Economist In the mid 1950s 9% of adults were single in the US. The figure is now 44% Ref: Innovation Watch In Australia 25% … Continue reading →

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Stat of the week.

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Richard

Since 1990, the percentage of young people aged 15-29 has risen by 50% in Libya and Tunisia, 65% in Egypt and 125% in Yemen. Meanwhile Japan is moving in the other direction. By 2055, 41% of the Japanese population will … Continue reading →

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Stat shot

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Richard

The CEO of Ericsson as predicted that here will be 50 billion devices connected to the internet by 2020. (From Wired magazine).

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National insecurity

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Richard

Here’s a very interesting statistic. China spends more money on internal security than external defence. Furthermore, the internal security budget is growing faster than the external defence budget. Why would this be so? Ref: The Economist, March 12-18 edition (page … Continue reading →

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