How we've changed in 10 years

Interesting stats running in the papers today on how Britain has changed in the last 10 years.

:: £194 billion - the difference in the budget, which has dropped from a £16 billion surplus in 2000 to a £178 billion deficit today.

:: 2.5 million - increase in Britain's population from 58,886,000 in 2000 to 61,400,000 in 2010.

:: 760,000 - the rise in unemployment from 1,701,000 in January 2000 to 2,461,000 in September 2009.

:: 98,000 - increase in number of immigrants arriving in Britain each year from 479,000 in 2000 to 577,000 in 2007.

:: 416 - British servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

:: 4,000 - fewer pubs across Britain, from 60,000 in 2000 to 56,000 in 2009, according to the British Beer and Pub Association.

:: Sixfold - households with internet access soars from 10% in 1999 to 61% by 2008.

:: Sixfold - Britons with mobile phones from 20% in 1998 to 78% by 2007.

:: Five - the increase in months of the average age women give birth for the first time - from 29 years and one month in 2000 to 29 years and six months in 2008.

:: 1.5 - years by which the average age increased of men getting married for the first time. Men were marrying at 30-and-a-half in 2000, while in 2007 it was 32.

:: 15 - per cent more babies born outside marriage from 39.5% in 2000 to 45.4% in 2008.

:: 40 - per cent increase of GCSE students gaining five or more A* to C grades, from 50% in 2000 to 70% in 2009.

:: 33 - amount in pence that the average litre of petrol has gone up. In mid December 1999 it was 75.4p, by December 2009 it was 108.89p.

:: 10 - extra foreign owners in English football's Premier League from just one during the 1999-2000 season.

:: 246 - contestants since the launch of Big Brother, the genre-defining reality show, in 2000.