2018 statistic of the year: Plastic waste fact tops list - BBC News
Facts about the environment, Kylie Jenner and Jaffa cakes all make the list.
A fact about plastic waste - which has repeatedly made headlines this year - has been named 2018's stat of the year

Two facts about the environment have been named as 2018's best statistics.

The list - from the Royal Statistical Society - also included figures about Kylie Jenner, Jaffa Cakes and trains.

The winning international statistic of the year was 90.5% - the proportion of plastic waste that has never been recycled.

And in the UK category, the top stat was 27.8% - the highest percentage of all electricity which was generated by solar power.

Solar power became the UK's number one source of electricity - beating gas and nuclear - at one point on 30 June, during the heatwave.

"The statistics on this list capture some of the zeitgeist of 2018," said the executive director of the Royal Statistical Society, Hetan Shah.

A panel of judges picked the two winners, along with several highly commended statistics - from more than 200 nominations.

A billion dollar figure related to reality TV star Kylie Jenner also made the list of 2018's best stats

The environment and plastic waste has repeatedly made headlines in 2018, and "single-use" - referring to plastic waste - was named the word of the year.

In 2017 - the first year that the Royal Statistical Society ran their competition to highlight fake news and the power of numbers - the statistic of the year was 0.1% - the percentage of the UK land area that is densely built upon.

Entries for 2018 were submitted earlier this year. Judges on the panel included Dame Jil Matheson, former national statistician - the top adviser to the government on official statistics - as well as RSS president Sir David Spiegelhalter, BBC home editor Mark Easton and the Guardian's US data editor Mona Chalabi.
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