The number of Internet users also rose 12.2% in 2010, according to the official data.
Official data showed that more Chinese cities saw home prices rise in October from September.
Official data - and private surveys - have been all over the place lately.
Mr Lomborg defends these positions on the basis of official data and published science.
In 2012, 25 provinces raised minimum wages by an average of 20%, official data show.
Official data show a market deflating lethargically, with prices only 12.8% below their peak.
Official data in Brazil show that its trade with Africa has increased fivefold in the past decade.
The number of unemployed people in France rose to a fresh high last month, official data shows.
Other official data pointing to a recovery includes an acceleration in exports, retail sales and industrial production.
News of the pick-up in Spanish sentiment followed separate official data showing that inflation in Spain was slowing.
The Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI) was at 50.9 in March, up from 50.1 in February, official data showed.
Output fell by 1.3% from the previous month, and by 4.3% compared to a year earlier, official data showed.
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Russia's death rate rose by more than a quarter during August's heatwave and forest fire crisis, official data show.
More than 800 companies were awaiting regulatory approval for new listings as of Dec. 20, according to official data.
School league tables are produced every year from official data published by the government on pupils' achievement in England.
The drop was due largely to a reduction in the output of consumer durable goods, official data showed Friday.
It was issued by the official data-collector China Internet Network Information Center (Cnnic).
Property prices fell year-on-year in May in 54 out of 70 cities, according to official data released June 18.
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The figures were released as official data showed Scottish unemployment fell by 11, 000 between December and February to stand at 197, 000.
Wang estimates that the per-capita disposable income of urban Chinese households in 2008 should be Rmb32, 154, 90% above the official data.
However, as Geoffrey Dicks at Novus Capital markets pointed out recently, short-term, the correlation with the official data is pretty weak.
Every year as many as 150, 000 divorced parents in Japan lose contact with their children, according to estimates gleaned from official data.
It follows official data from Spain indicating its number of mobile telephone and datacard subscriptions fell by 5% over the same period.
Official data showed that the jobless rate in the last three months of 2012 rose 1% to 26%, or 5.97 million people.
Industrial production rose by 10.1% in November, compared with a year earlier, according to the official data from the National Bureau of Statistics.
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The job figures were released as official data showed that the Scottish economy grew by 0.5% in the final three months of 2012.
Official data recently showed that the jobless rate in the last three months of 2012 rose 1% to 26%, or 5.97 million people.
Some 17% of 16 to 24-year-olds were without jobs or college places in the three months to September 2012, according to official data.
If the figure is confirmed by official data later this month, it will mean that the economy returned to growth for only a single quarter.
Official data also suggest that immigration may be another factor behind rising birth rates - foreign-born mothers make up nearly a quarter of the figures.
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