Statistics

Perhaps further evidence of declining standards from yesterday's Guardian, from an article about the dreadful toll air pollution was taking on the world's population.

To my mind, while absolute numbers are important, especially if you are one of them, in this case relative numbers would have been of a lot more interest to me. Of course there are going to be a lot of deaths in China and India, they are both very big places, and the graphic would have been much improved by taking that into account.