Fun Statistics

“The most common place where men will shed a tear of emotion is in the cinema (48%)”

“Traffic wardens were voted the least smiley profession (36%)”

“Almost two out of five people (39%) have stood in a queue for several hours”

“The British office worker drinks an average 4 cups of tea and one cup of coffee each day”

“At any particular time, 23% of Brits are feeling very happy, while 47% are feeling fairly happy”

“On average, primary school children in Britain can name 7.2 celebrities, but can only think of 3.6 garden birds and only 2 wild flowers”

“The average mum has only an hour and three-quarters to herself on a weekday and averages only 6.8 hours sleep a night”

“Families now have more computers than bicycles, with 2.6 computers per family household and only 2.5 bikes per family”

“A quarter of children can't recognise a raspberry or a cherry, and one in five don't know what a melon looks like”

“2 in 10 people burp audibly at the family dinner table”