There is good news: only 0.1 per cent of Britain has been densely built upon. There is bad news: real average UK pay remains 3 per cent lower than in 2008. Together, these figures make up some of the Royal Statistical Society’s statistics of the year. The institute, which counts among its members some of Britain’s finest statisticians, has for the first time compiled a list of the most surprising, significant or unusual statistics of the past year. Some of them, such as the figure on land use, come from published scientific…

Source: The Times December 19, 2017 00:00 UTC