December 30, 2012 9:53 pm
The FT’s round-up of the year’s standout statistics
Forget pictures; it’s a good statistic that is really worth a thousand words.
FT journalists pick out the numbers that caught their eye over 2012. Did you know that the US election cost $50 per vote cast? Or that the average age of the four surviving Rolling Stones (68) is two years older than that of the nine justices on the US Supreme Court?
From the dwindling ice cover in the Arctic to the booming trade across Mexico’s violent border with the US, here is the FT’s view of our world (and, indeed, Mars) as seen through these hard data.
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