Wednesday 22 July 2009

If the UK were a village of 100 people...

...and all current demographic and social proportions remained the same, what would the village look like? A great article in the Independent this week that converts useful stats about the UK into a usable form, by comparing the UK to a village of 100 people.
Some of the things I found interesting:
  • Only 64% of the households would have access to the internet.
  • Thirty people would have a Facebook account.
  • The 80 adults in the village would share a personal debt of £2.4m (£30,480 each, on average).
  • The richest 10 people in the village would earn more than the poorest 50 combined.
  • 31% of households would be single person households.
  • The villagers would have 118 mobile phones between them.
A pdf of the info is available HERE.

1 comment:

Dean said...

Probably the most unnecessary use of 'if the UK/world were' ever.

'Fifty-five would have a driving licence.'

Much better than 55% of Britons have a driving licence. Or not....