Numbers of the year 2025
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
From the number of women in space and transistors on a chip to social media usage -we’re taking a look back the key numerical moments of 2025. We explore the woes of a big infrastructure projects. Plus, just how can you make sure your New Year’s Resolutions are successful? We’ve got statistics to help.
Presenter: Tim Harford Reporter: Lizzy McNeil Producers: Charlotte McDonald and Katie Solleveld Production Coordinator: Maria Ogundele Sound Mix: Neil Churchill Editor: Richard Vadon
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.6 | Police, drop your weapon! |
| 0:09.9 | In 2025, we were here for the investigators, gangster. |
| 0:14.1 | They were stealing money from wealthy institutions. |
| 0:17.5 | Debt was fair game. |
| 0:18.9 | Murder, they wrote. |
| 0:19.9 | He was a preacher, a good guy. |
| 0:21.4 | But now he's dead. |
| 0:23.1 | It has all the marks of a sort of like a proper horror film. |
| 0:26.3 | And fame under fire. |
| 0:27.8 | He is no longer afforded the right of a regular citizen. |
| 0:31.4 | He is guilty until proven innocent. |
| 0:32.9 | Get the best of 2025 with podcasts on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:38.4 | Hello and welcome to this special edition of More or Less, the show that likes to thoroughly |
| 0:43.9 | investigate and challenge the numbers in the news and in life. I'm Tim Harford. |
| 0:49.7 | This week we're doing things a little differently to celebrate the end of one year and the start of a new one. |
| 0:56.0 | We're bringing you a slew of interesting numbers from 2025, which tell us something about our world that you might not already know. |
| 1:04.4 | For those of you who are familiar with our podcast, you'll have heard our numbers of the year format before. |
| 1:09.9 | Here we introduce it to our Radio |
| 1:12.2 | four audience with a new set of numbers. We'll be looking at the number of women in space, |
| 1:17.8 | the average amount of time spent on social media, how much do we spend on big infrastructure |
| 1:22.6 | projects, and many more. But first, which of you tech geeks out there knows what Moore's law is? |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 8 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.