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Percentage points

Saturday 09 May 1998 18:02 EDT
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9% of the world's population are over 60

28% of top company finance directors believe the business climate has improved since Labour came to power

35% of sexually active US male teenagers say they or their partner were drunk or high when they last had sex

36% of health service organisations have so far spent nothing on tackling the millennium bug

43% of people are mystified by the instructions for assembling flat-pack furniture items

57% of girls aged 11-16 receive between pounds 20 and pounds 40 a month pocket money.

67% of people do not carry organ donor cards

71% of people say they are willing to let their kidneys be used in transplant operations after their death

84% of office workers say they hate working for a woman boss

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