85 per cent of all EU freight travels by road, compared to 65 per cent 20 years ago. The figure is projected to rise to 95 per cent by 2005. [European Commission]
Out of 127,000 permanent full time jobs created in Britain in the past three years, two thirds have gone to women. [The Observer]
In Oman, there are 75.5 television sets per 100 population, compared to 2.9 in neighbouring Yemen. [Pocket Middle East and North Africa, The Economist 1995]
In the UK, 40 per cent of the 20,000 patients with HIV are receiving treatment, compared with 79 per cent of 94,000 HIV patients in France. [The Times]
Full time working mothers spend more time on childcare in 1995 than non-employed
mothers did in 1961. [Prospect, January 1997, p56]
The IMF has recently estimated that by the year 2000 the Asian economies will account for about 30 per cent of world output. But in 1900 the Asian economies accounted for about 32 per cent of world output. [Speech by Christopher Tugendhat]
41.5 per cent of international consumers rate US entertainment "very good or excellent," more than twice as many as the second favourite, Britain. [Bozell-Gallup Worldwide Quality Poll 1996]
In the December issue, Geoffrey Hosking should have been described as professor of Russian history and deputy director of the School of Slavonic and East
European Studies.
