More than 300, 000 people are thought to have died during the conflict, according to UN estimates.
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Some 300, 000 people are thought to have died during a decade of conflict in Darfur, according to UN estimates.
More than 1.2 million people have fled to neighbouring countries since the unrest in Syria began two years ago, according to UN figures.
Nearly 1.5 million Syrians have fled their country, and more than four million are thought to have been internally displaced, according to UN estimates.
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According to UN statistics, life expectancy in the U.S. today is about 78 and should continue rising with new medical breakthroughs as we baby boomers age.
But overall, the world now has 55 million extra slum dwellers than it did in 2000, according to UN Habitat, also known as the UN Human Settlements Programme.
According to UN Habitat, the mega-cities of the future, (those with more than 10 million residents) will be "giant potential flood and disaster traps" if insufficient action is taken on behalf of their residents.
International travel numbers have continued to increase at "pre-crisis levels", according to the UN World Tourism Organization, and are expected to do so in 2013 as well.
According to the UN's population division, the nationwide fertility rate will continue to decline, reaching 1.51 in 2015-20.
According to the UN, at least 70, 000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict.
Some 20, 000 Congolese civilians have fled to Uganda since then, according to the UN refugee agency.
Mali is the fourth-poorest state in the world, according to the UN, and getting poorer.
But according to the UN, Japan was almost 2.8 times wealthier than China in 2008 (see charts).
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According to the UN, South Africa has the second highest per capita murder rate in the world.
According to the UN, Addis has one of the higher densities of slum dwellers in the world.
According to the UN the continent is losing forest twice as fast as the rest of the world.
According to the UN's World Health Organization lack of clean water and sanitation kills 1.6 million children each year.
That must be according to the UN mandate on weapons of mass destruction.
Millions of people face starvation across Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Burundi, the Congo and Rwanda, according to the UN.
Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere rose to yet another high in 2010, according to the UN's weather agency.
According to the UN and other international organizations, more than two million Zimbabwean refugees have streamed across the border since 2000.
More than half a million people have now fled the conflict in Syria to neighbouring countries, according to the UN's refugee agency.
According to an un-named federal official, hackers have repeatedly breached a NASDAQ-owned, cloud-based application called Directors Desk for more than a year.
The continuing violence has produced, according to the UN, 300, 000 internal refugees in Darfur since January alone, the highest rate of displacement for several years.
According to the UN's data, derived from satellite images, the total amount of Andean land under coca has dropped by nearly a quarter since 1990.
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By 2050 there will be 35 persons of retirement age for every 100 working-age individuals in the U.S. at current fertility levels, according to the UN.
America cut its habit by about a quarter between 2006 and 2010, according to the UN, and the number of employees failing workplace cocaine tests fell by two-thirds.
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Within a generation, the middle class in China will be roughly four times the size of the American middle class population, according to the UN Population Division and Goldman Sachs.
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Cigarette smoking in Africa - in particular in countries like Egypt and Nigeria - is growing by a record 3.5% a year, according to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).
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