White teenagers twice as likely to have taken hard drugs compared to ethnic minorities
White teens were almost three times more likely to report binge drinking than their ethnic minority peers, according to a UCL study
10 February 2021 • 6:00am
White teenagers are twice as likely to have taken hard drugs compared to ethnic minorities, new figures show, as researchers say white parents may be less strict.
Experts at University College London s (UCL) Centre for Longitudinal Studies analysed behaviours of Generation Z and found one in ten teenagers had tried hard drugs such as cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine, by the age of 17.
The number of days it took for scientists to develop a coronavirus vaccine has featured in the Royal Statistical Society s list of its most significant statistics of 2020.
Professor Jennifer Rogers, the society s vice president for external affairs, said the numbers are being a shared after a year where statistics have been more important than ever .
Here we take a look at the Royal Statistical Society s stand-out statistics of the year.
332 days
Scientists began working to develop
a coronavirus vaccine as countries across the world struggled to control the spread of the disease. Advertisement
332 days marks the amount of time between 11 January 2020, when scientists published a genetic sequence of the disease, and 8 December, when an effective vaccine was first administered in the UK roll-out.