19 places where the book found two answers to what looks like one question, sorted by where the disagreement comes from. In each, the chapter prints what the documents say and how far it can resolve them.
12 of the 19 are one organisation disagreeing with itself, or figures set against each other that were never measuring the same thing; 4 are two organisations counting one quantity. Checking whether two publishers agree catches only the second kind.
The same organisation printing different values for the same thing, in two documents, two editions or two places in one report.
barrels a day; each bar on this row’s own scale, from zero
The chapter: The World Bank has published two different figures for how much oil Syria produced in 2024.
Chapter 9: Oil, Gas, Phosphate and Olives · Claim OILPROD-001
megawatts; each bar on this row’s own scale, from zero
The chapter: A year later the same agency published the same series for the same year and recorded 1,500 megawatts off-grid.
Chapter 8: The Energy Transition Already Under Way · Claim SOLAR-001
million tonnes; each bar on this row’s own scale, from zero
The chapter: When it returned in the 2024 edition the figure was 250 million tonnes.
Chapter 9: Oil, Gas, Phosphate and Olives · Claim PHOSRES-002
million US dollars; each bar on this row’s own scale, from zero
The chapter: its publisher has printed different figures against that one record.
billion US dollars, December 2024; each bar on this row’s own scale, from zero
The chapter: US$140–345 billion in the summary and US$141–343 billion in the findings.
respondents; each bar on this row’s own scale, from zero
The chapter: its results announcement gives as three thousand six hundred and ninety and its published microdata as three thousand six hundred and ninety-one.
No figures to set side by side: the disagreement is in the words.
The chapter: Its own documents give three different fieldwork periods.
No figures to set side by side: the disagreement is in the words.
The chapter: does not hold its wording between one printing and the other.
Two organisations counting what is meant to be the same thing and arriving at different numbers.
people; each bar on this row’s own scale, from zero
The chapter: the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees carries 5,542,227 and 1,917,862 for the same quantities.
people; each bar on this row’s own scale, from zero
The chapter: the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees carries 5,542,227 and 1,917,862 for the same quantities.
teachers; each bar on this row’s own scale, from zero
The chapter: For 2002 the Bureau prints 128,903 primary teachers, 12.4 per cent more than the Institute's 114,676 on my arithmetic.
Chapter 7: People and Institutional Capacity · Claim TEACH-001
properties; each bar on this row’s own scale, from zero
The chapter: A larger national count of about thirty-seven thousand has circulated since the spring of 2026.
A specialist or advocacy account of a law that the law’s own text does not bear out.
No figures to set side by side: the disagreement is in the words.
The chapter: Human Rights Watch's account of what happens to a claim nobody files is contradicted by the text of the instrument it describes.
No figures to set side by side: the disagreement is in the words.
The chapter: they put the forty per cent on opposite sides of the same boundary; the statute agrees with the earlier one.
No figures to set side by side: the disagreement is in the words.
The chapter: two specialist accounts disagree, and against the statute both of them are wrong.
Figures quoted against each other as rival estimates when they measure different things. Here the error is the comparison.
million cubic metres a day; each bar on this row’s own scale, from zero
The chapter: setting 7.4 against 8 as rival estimates is the error rather than the disagreement.
Chapter 8: The Energy Transition Already Under Way · Claim GAS-001
per cent; each bar on this row’s own scale, from zero
The chapter: the 30-odd per cent figure already contains the plant losses.
Chapter 8: The Energy Transition Already Under Way · Claim LOSS-001
No figures to set side by side: the disagreement is in the words.
The chapter: four published statements of it do not use one measure.
Chapter 8: The Energy Transition Already Under Way · Claim SUPPLY-001
people; each bar on this row’s own scale, from zero
The chapter: A number labelled for one year is carrying a quantity from the year before.
Every figure on this page is printed in the chapter it comes from, and the page will not build if one is not. No gap, ratio or percentage is computed here. The selection is of disagreements the chapters set out in their own words; the claim register records more.