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Numbers of 2021

The most significant numbers of the year

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Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe鈥檚?

Will Nigeria鈥檚 population really reach 600million?

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How much plastic is in the ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?

Can two social media stars remove $30million worth of plastic from the ocean?

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QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?

Fact checking a QAnon claim.

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Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?

Should women be worried about having a male surgeon?

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Fertility rates: Baby boom or bust?

Fertility rates around the world

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Placebo: Can you fool your brain?

Looking at the power of expectations

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Testosterone and sport

Trans women鈥檚 participation in elite sport

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Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid

What does the data tell us?

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Did lockdowns save any lives?

Did lockdowns actually save any lives?

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Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos

Troop and casualty numbers in Ukraine

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Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?

Fact checking Boris Johnson鈥檚 claim

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Pizza and nuclear war

How good negotiation can help us split pizzas fairly and also avoid nuclear war.

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Why has Hong Kong鈥檚 Covid wave been so bad?

What鈥檚 behind one of the worst Covid death rates ever?

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Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?

How much of the worlds wheat comes from Ukraine and Russia

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Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?

How tea became an accidental lifesaver in 18th Century England.

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Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers

How can we clearly explain complex numbers to the public without losing their meaning?

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Understanding India through data

What can data tell us about a country of 1.4 billion people?

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Sweden鈥檚 polarising pandemic response

Has Sweden鈥檚 pandemic response been a triumph or a disaster鈥�or something in-between?

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Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?

Tim Harford asks how we measure the health of our oceans

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Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?

We look at the World Health Organisation鈥檚 latest estimates of the pandemic鈥檚 death toll

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Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions?

Looking at numbers on green house gas emissions and stress.

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Noisy decisions

Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman on how 'noise' impacts decision making

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Are girls starting puberty earlier?

We look into a claim that the age of girls鈥� puberty is falling rapidly

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Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer

The maths professor on the choices she and others have faced after a cancer diagnosis

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How often do people have sex?

Looking at sex and statistics in Japan and America.

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Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences

Ed Sheeran thinks that musical coincidences will always happen鈥� but do the numbers agree?

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How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?

In the wake of the historic overturning of Roe vs Wade, we look at the statistics.

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Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?

The numbers behind water use and denim production

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Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?

We assess President Museveni鈥檚 claim that Uganda is nearing a higher economic status.

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