According to the Office for National Statistics, it looks like the force is strong in the UK.
Statistics. It’s not really a word that calls to mind ‘fun’. So three cheers to the UK’s Office For National Statistics. They released an very on-trend report today featuring a whole range of Star Wars themed facts and figures. Is this a sign of Christmas cheer? Maybe they just wanted a nice change from writing reports on GDP and inflation figures.
Here are the highlights:
1. It’s costing a lot more to see Chewbacca on the big screen. Between 2005 and 2015 the price of a cinema ticket rose by almost 50%. This means the price of your cinema ticket for The Force Awakens will be around 50% higher than your cinema ticket for Revenge of the Sith, released in 2005.
2. In the 2011 UK Census 176,632 people identified themselves as Jedi. May the force be with them all!
3. The name Anakin first appeared on the baby names list in 2000; the year after this character first appeared in The Phantom Menace. If you didn’t know, Anakin was Darth Vader’s name before he turned to the Dark Side. Let’s hope his namesakes turn out differently…
4. Fewer and fewer men are getting the chance to say “Luke, I am your father” as the popularity of the name decreases.
In case you are one of the five people in the world with no access to a newspaper, TV or the internet (in which case, how are you reading this?), the new Star Wars movie The Force Awakens opened this week in the UK.
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