The Human Footprint (5)
The vocabulary of the average UK citizen is just 25,000 words, only 4% of the 616,000 words in the English Oxford Dictionary.
We speak on average 4,300 words a day – more for women (6,400-8,000), less for men (2,000-4,000). That’s 123,205,750 words in a lifetime.
Over a lifetime we will know 1,700 people . We will have 300 people in our social group at anytime.
The average adult will have 10 different partners in a lifetime, having sex about 2 times a week or 4,239 times in all!
We will fall in love 3 times. The average marriage will last 11.5 years and 70% of us will attempt a marriage once.
We will on average live for 2,475,576,000 seconds.
Footnote: if you’ve enjoyed this week’s statistics from the television programme “The Human Footprint”, you’ll find a pretty comprehensive list of all the figures here.