Does a fall in the UK's healthy life expectancy mean what you think it means?
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week:
Headlines have claimed that “healthy life expectancy” in the UK has fallen by two years. What does this actually mean? (00:32)
A new government report estimates that HS2 will cost almost double its original estimate. We ask where …
Is crime in London ‘through the roof’?
The crime rate in London has been cropping up regularly on social media and in political discussions - US president Donald Trump has claimed that crime in the city is ‘through the roof’.
But what does the data tell us?
Professor Matt Ashby, from University College London’s Centre for Global City Po…
14 million deaths or zero deaths? The impact of the USAID cuts
As part of their mandate to stop 'waste, fraud and abuse' in federal government spending, DOGE, the department of Government Efficiency, made large cuts to the amount of money the US spent on foreign aid.
The task force, headed by Elon Musk, effectively dismantled the US's largest foreign aid agen…
Bonus podcast: Norman Numbers
What's this, an extra podcast? Has Christmas come early?
No, the Bayeux Tapestry has instead returned to England for the first time in almost 1000 years.
To mark the occasion, we've compiled six snack-sized stats all about the Norman invasion of England to help you have something to talk about in …
Is every card shuffle unique?
Can it really be true that every shuffle of a deck of cards is unique? Mathematician and stand-up comedian Matt Parker claims that every time you do a shuffle, the cards have never been in that order before.
But how can he be so confident? Matt came into the studio armed with a deck of cards and …
Has the UK’s productivity puzzle been solved?
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week:
(00:42) Frustrated economists have been left rending their garments and howling in the streets after the UK’s ‘productivity puzzle’ - a decade-long head-scratching, soul-searching conundrum - disappeared with a click of the finger…
Trump fact-check: Do the US and Venezuela have 60% of the world’s oil?
US president Donald Trump has claimed in a speech to the UN that the US and Venezuela combined now have 60% of the world’s oil.
100% of the team on More or Less were confused.
What measurement was the president using to get to this figure? Barrels of oil produced a day? Reserves of oil in the grou…
Does the UK really have nine out of the ten poorest regions in Northern Europe?
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week:
(00:40) Does the UK account for nine out of ten of the poorest regions in Northern Europe? It’s a classic story of devil meets detail where the true meaning is the geographical inequality we met along the way.
(07:54) An article i…
Fact-check: Is China missing a billion people?
A viral video circulating online claims the population of China is actually a billion people lower than the UN and China say.
A billion is big number, you'd think the Chinese would notice if that many were missing - and the claim is certainly false.
However, as the team dug into the stats, a stran…
Fact-check: Will Scottish pensioners really be funding English social care?
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week:
(00:40) First Minister John Swinney has claimed that Scottish pensioners are set to lose £2000, with the money going to fund English social care. We gently suggest he might like to consider the existence of the Barnett formula, an…
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