Christmas in the UK

The cost of Christmas in the UK: £30 billion!

SPENDING

£4.2 billion
The amount Britons spent on cosmetics this Christmas

£4.14 billion
Britain's aid budget for the developing world in 2004

£813
Average spending per adult on celebrating Christmas (£55 less than last year)

£50
The per capita annual income in Ethiopia

£20 million
Amount made by Mark Tilden, British robot expert who invented Robosapien, this year's hit toy

£20 million
Amount nations of sub-Saharan Africa are paying in debt to developed world every 16 hours



EATING

7,000
Average calories consumed by Britons on Christmas Day

780
Minutes running needed to burn off 7,000 calories

7
Number of days a child refugee in Darfur could survive on 7,000 calories

£12
Average cost per head in UK of Christmas lunch

£12
Cost of a month's supply of grain for a family in drought-hit Malawi

30,525
Number of miles your Christmas dinner will have travelled to reach your table – vegetables alone are likely to have come 15,800 miles

4
Miles walked daily by families in developing world in search of water



HEALTH

5 million
Britons will suffer a stomach upset over festive season

2.1 million
People in developing world killed this year by diarrhoeal disease



ENVIRONMENT

83 sq km
Amount of wrapping paper used (enough to cover 33 Hyde Parks)

3,000,000
Tonnes of extra rubbish generated – enough to fill 120 million wheelie bins