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Your support makes all the difference.Number of executions Larry Fitzgerald has attended during his five years as the public relations officer for the Department of Criminal Justice in Texas:
60
Chances that a prison inmate in India is awaiting trial rather than serving a sentence:
4:5
Average monthly wages of police officers in Pakistan:
$38
Number of states, apart from Somalia and the US, which have yet to ratify the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child:
0
Percentage of Uzbekistan's population under 15 years old:
50
Percentage of new businesses in the US started by 18-34-year-olds:
70
Number of islands off the north and west coasts of Ireland inhabited in 1841, with a total population of 38,138:
211
Number of islands off the north and west coasts of Ireland inhabited in 1991, with a total population of 9,700:
66
Number of prehistoric rock-art sites in Ireland, Scotland and England:
7,000
Percentage of the cost of any public building in France which is dedicated to commissioning contemporary art:
1
Charitable donation needed for one of the three fountains at Versailles to be named after the donor:
$500,000
Amount congregations gave to the Church of England in 1997:
pounds 215m
Amount spent every second in April on credit and debit cards in Great Britain:
pounds 4,000
Percentage by which yacht sales in the US have risen since 1993:
143
Number of themed restaurants in Great Britain in 1996, as opposed to 200 in 1986:
800
Number of eggs consumed daily in Great Britain:
27 million
SOURCES: ATLANTIC MONTHLY, THE ECONOMIST, PROSPECT, SOUTH AFRICA,THE TIMES, DISSENT, HISTORY IRELAND, THE ART NEWSPAPER, CHURCH TIMES, METRO, ATLANTIC MONTHLY, THE GUARDIAN, SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, FOOD PROCESSING
Compiled by Will Hobson
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