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Your support makes all the difference.Number of illegal immigrants arrested every day trying to enter Hong Kong:
100
Number of banks that refused to lend to Sicily last year when its debt reached $1bn:
40
Average amount of sturgeon, in tonnes, caught every year in the Caspian Sea at the start of the 1980s:
23,000
Average amount of sturgeon, in tonnes, caught every year in the Caspian Sea at present:
3,000
Number of factories responsible for industrial pollution, on average, in postcode areas of the UK where average household incomes are below pounds 15,000:
662
Number of factories responsible for industrial pollution, on average, in postcode areas of the UK where average household incomes are above pounds 30,000:
5
Projected number of publicly owned houses in Germany to be fitted with solar panels by 2005: 111,000
Projected number of publicly owned houses in UK to be fitted with solar panels by 2005:
100
Cash bet on the 1997 UK election:
pounds 10m
Amount of prize money unclaimed on a lottery ticket bought in Hull on 25 May 1996:
pounds 2,054,754
Average age of first-time property buyers in UK:
32
Chances that 30- 34-year-olds in the UK still live with their parents:
1:9
Number of films made in India last year, as opposed to 950 in 1990: 620
Number of people employed in the Indian film business:
3 million
Number of people who go the cinema every day in India:
15 million
Estimated annual worth of US health and beauty care market: $150bn
Number of Avon ladies worldwide 3 million
Average number of times a week Danes wash their hair:
4.7
SOURCES: UNDERSTANDING CHINA: JOHN BRYAN STARK, EUROMONEY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, FRIENDS OF THE EARTH, THE ENDS REPORT, COMPUTER WEEKLY, TNT, THE OBSERVER, MIDWEEK, AIR FRANCE, TIME OUT, SPC, FORTUNE
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