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Public interest

Public statistics are the most fought-over numbers there are, and usually the best documented. The arguments they feed are rarely about the figures themselves; they are about denominators, baselines and which year the comparison starts from.

These clips present the figure with its source and its period attached, show the shape rather than the headline, and leave the argument to you.

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Every clip here states its source and the period it covers, and carries the underlying numbers on its page as a table you can copy.

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What it covers

  1. 1Why totals and per-capita rates rank countries almost in reverse
  2. 2What a population pyramid says about the next forty years
  3. 3How baseline choice decides whether a climate figure looks alarming or routine
  4. 4What turnout figures change when the denominator changes
  5. 5Where an energy mix actually sits, as opposed to where it is announced

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