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Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?
We investigate the impact of our use of toilet paper on the world’s forests.
How we shook the world of very large numbers
How an edition of More or Less influenced the naming of enormous numbers
Can China's data on Covid deaths be trusted?
Is China under-reporting data on Covid related deaths?
Irish pubs - a global numbers game
Are there more Irish pubs in Ireland than in all other countries combined?
What are the numbers of 2022?
Tim Harford and guests on the numbers that help tell the big stories of the year.
Qatar World Cup: The pressure of penalties
We analyse World Cup penalty data to ask what boosts the chance of scoring from the spot
Why is data so important in determining how we live?
Tim Harford on how good policies depend on the availability of reliable statistics
World Cup in Qatar: How many migrant workers have died?
Examining the wildly varying estimates of deaths in the run-up to the tournament in Qatar
When do food shortages become a famine?
With Somalia in crisis, we ask how data is used to officially declare a famine
A $220 billion World Cup?
Has hosting the Fifa football World Cup really cost Qatar $220bn?
