1Our city is home to roughly two point four million people, according to the latest census.
2The population has grown by twelve percent since the year two thousand and ten.
3A one-bedroom flat in the centre now costs about one thousand two hundred pounds a month.
4Ten years ago, the same flat would have cost no more than seven hundred and fifty pounds.
5The average commuter spends forty-five minutes travelling to work each morning.
6Around three hundred and twenty thousand passengers use the metro system every weekday.
7Last year, the airport handled eighteen point six million travellers from over ninety countries.
8The city council spends close to two billion euros a year on public services.
9Unemployment stands at five point eight percent, slightly below the national average.
10The hottest temperature ever recorded here was forty point two degrees, on the nineteenth of July, two thousand and twenty-two.
11By the year two thousand and forty, officials expect the population to reach three million.