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Numbers of the year 2024
What rate does the number 2 describe in India?
It鈥檚 that time of year again, the time when we ask some of our favourite statistically-inclined people for their numbers of the year.
We present them to you - from falling birth rates in India to children saved by vaccines.
Contributors:
RukminiS, Data for India
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Cambridge University,
Hannah Ritchie, Our World in Data.
Presenter: Charlotte McDonald
Producers: Lizzy McNeill and Vicky Baker
Series Producer: Tom Colls
Editor: Richard Vadon
Sound Engineer: Donald McDonald and Rod Farquhar
Unlock the history and truth behind the data with The OU
Explore how numbers shape, and sometimes mislead us, with The Open University.
When can you trust statistics?
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Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics used in everyday life.
