Numbers of the year 2024
What rate does the number 2 describe in India?
It’s 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
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Broadcasts
- Sat 28 Dec 202405:50GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa, Europe and the Middle East & West and Central Africa & Live News
- Sat 28 Dec 202411:50GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & Europe and the Middle East only
- Sat 28 Dec 202416:50GMTBBC World Service News Internet & Live News
- Sun 29 Dec 202409:50GMTBBC World Service West and Central Africa
- Sun 29 Dec 202411:50GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa, Europe and the Middle East & West and Central Africa
- Sun 29 Dec 202422:50GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
- Mon 30 Dec 202400:50GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
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