pre_text: 2. Employees Please refer to the Report on Directors’ remuneration on pages 77 to 101 and note 38 of Notes to the consolidated financial statements on page 161 for disclosures relating to the emoluments, share incentives and long-term incentive interests and pensions of the Directors. The average number of people employed by the Company during the year was:
table: 2019 2018
table: Number Number
table: Manufacturing 40 37
table: Product development 54 50
table: Selling and marketing 52 45
table: Administration 32 30
table: 178 162
question: Analyse this data from a financial earnings document. What was the change in the average number of people employed by the company in 2019?