222

billion dollar global economic losses in 2010 from natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanos, winter storms and summer heatwaves

1.5

million people still living under canvas in Haiti almost a year after the earthquake that killed over 250,000 people and where less than $1bn of a promised $5.3bn in aid has been delivered

25

% of Irish adults now clinically obese, making us the fifth fattest nation in world

3

more of the 'disappeared', people murdered by the IRA whose bodies were found in 2010, leaving five to be found

65,500

euro, Julian Assange's annual salary, two-thirds of WikiLeaks' annual salary budget of €99,000

22

Number of foreclosures in 2010 against borrowers approved by Nama

17

Irish teenagers' very average place in the educational league table for literacy compiled by the OECD among its 34 member countries – down from number five within three years

100,000

flights cancelled because of the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic ash cloud, disrupting travel plans of eight million passengers

4

Number of banks the taxpayer now owns