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8. May 2021

3.7 million books sold in the first week after bookshops post-lockdown reopening across England and Wales on 12 April.

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7. May 2021

54% of British people aged 75 and older used the internet in 2020, up from only 29% in 2013.

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6. May 2021

2nd African country to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem became the Gambia.

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4. May 2021

77% efficacy shown in trials of a Malaria vaccine over the last 12 months in Africa.

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3. May 2021

64% surge in participation of women in the labour force in Saudi Arabia in the last two years.

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1. May 2021

$100 million committed to ocean and marine life conservation by the Australian government.

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28. April 2021

20% decline in the poverty rate in Ethiopia from 39% in 2004 to 19% last year.

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27. April 2021

162% increase in nest counts of green turtles in North Cyprus since 1993.

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25. April 2021

13,5% share of electric cars in total sales in Germany last year, up from only 3% in 2019.

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24. April 2021

25 million Nigerians will get access to cheap solar-powered electricity as part of the country’s newly-launched Solar Power Naija programme.

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