UK as a village of 100 people...

There have been several iterations of the "If the world were 100 people...." style analysis of statistics.
Yesterday, the Daily Mail published an interesting analysis of the UK
It has since appeared on a number of other blogs.
You can read the full article here, but here are a few sample statistics.

IF BRITAIN was a village of 100 people, then 17 of the villagers would be under the age of 15, while another 16 would be 65 or over (three of them 80 or over).

THERE would be 80 adults (aged 16 or over), of whom 40 would be married and 11 would be alone.

THERE would be 42 households in the village, of which 13 would be home to just one person. (Six of these would belong to lone pensioners, of whom five would be women.)

OF THE 19 villagers aged between 20 and 34, four would live with their parents.

THE village would welcome one new baby this year. The baby would be expected to live for 76 years and six months if it was a boy, or 81 years and seven months if a girl.

ONE person would die this year.

TEN people would have been born outside the village, three of whom would live in London.


Thanks to Twitter for the tip off once again via @LizSmith

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