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Your support makes all the difference.Estimated number of Easter cards sent this year in the UK, second only in
bulk to Christmas cards:
16.6m
Number of Mother's Day cards sent in the UK this year, 1m
more than Valentine cards:
12m
Percentage of Easter cards featuring religious motifs, rather than lambs, bunnies or fluffy chicks:
10
Amount spent annually in the UK on Easter eggs:
pounds 250m
Percentage of Americans, according to a Gallup poll,
who believe that religion can solve the vast majority of today's social problems:
63
Number of people in UK who have converted to Catholicism since 1981:
80,000
Amount, in lire, provided by Italian government to
teach English to bus drivers and traffic wardens in Rome in anticipation of the millions of visitors in 2000:
40bn
Amount, in lire, provided by the Italian government for studies to predict the number of visitors to Rome in 2000:
6bn
Number of different brands of breast milk substitutes - powder and liquid - on sale in Italy:
129
Number of children adopted annually in the UK in the 1970s:
21,000
Number of children adopted annually in the UK in the 1990s:
2,000
Number of children
in care in the UK,
at a cost of pounds 2.25bn to local authorities:
50,000
Number of people who have escaped from the General Penitentiary in Kingston, Jamaica in the last five years:
300
Difference between the amount needed to be spent annually to provide low-cost safe water and sanitation to all the people in the world who need it and the amount spent annually on pet food in Europe and US:
0
Number of attacks by dogs on humans every year in the US:
3m
Number of new companies being founded every week in Silicon Valley, California:
15
Number of Stradivarius violins in the world:
600
SOURCES: THE EVENING STANDARD, CHURCH TIMES, THE INDEPENDENT, THE ECONOMIST, THE LANCET, COMMUNITY CARE, FAIR TRADING, BLACK PERSPECTIVE, NEWSWEEK, FINANCIAL TIMES, MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS, NEW YORKER, NEWSWEEK.
Compiled by Will Hobson
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