In 2000, lunch ‘hour’ lasted 36 minutes. Today it’s 19 minutes.
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Another good stat
100 years ago in the UK 24 people were aged 100+ Last year (2021) the number was over 10,000.
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Driving around the UK tends to give one the impression that the country is crowded, built-upon and even ‘full’. However, the proprtion of the UK classified as “continuous urban fabric” is just 0.1% while another 5.3% is classified as “discontinuous urban fabric” in which 50-80% of land is built upon. The rest, let’s be generous and call it 94%, is rural and not built upon in any form.
It’s much the same story with the USA, with under 5% being “developed” (see map). This all feels counter-intuitive, but I think it’s a good example of how our persoanal experience and ‘view’ – if you can call it that – effects our thinking.
Running the numbers
Size of British Army = 73,000. Number of employees at UK, HM Revenue & Customs = 76,890. (Just worked that out myself, so you read this here first!).
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In August 2021, student loans in the US surpassed credit cards as the nation’s single largest source of debt, edging ever closer to $1 trillion. Weak signal?
Source: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/bad-education/
One of the best bar charts of all time
The Covid-19 line is dreadful, but I actually think the suicide line is worse in some senses.
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Things are changing rapidly, but so far around 360 people have died from Corona Virus in China. To put this in context, between 2002 and 2003, around 800 people died from the SARS Virus. Over the winter of 2017, 80,000 people in the US died from flu.
Source: Center for Disease Control (US).
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“One small town, Williamson (West Virginia), with a population of just 3,000, shipped in more than 20 million opioid pills, mostly oxycodone and hydrocodone, in a seven year period.” (The New Redneck Rebellion, FT Life & Arts, 29-30 June 2019).
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We haven’t had any numbers for a while, so here’s a killer stat…
Between 2010 and 2013, China used more cement than the US used during the whole of the Twentieth Century – Juliet Samuel, Daily Telegraph (UK), 26.1.19.
Killer Statistic
Between 2010 and 2013, China used more cement than the US used during the whole of the Twentieth Century.
Juliet Samuel, Daily Telegraph, 26.1.19.