And while the U.S. military doesn't count those numbers, the Iraqi government does.
Social networking sites such as MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, Friendster and many others count large numbers of children among their users.
Rather, we count the numbers of TEUs moving through the port facilities around the world as the true signal of economic strength or weakness, and those numbers are rising, not falling.
Owner Larry Taad expects a 500% increase in these user count and earnings numbers for 2013.
And nine out of 10 were more positive about learning maths after Numbers Count than when they started.
I've lost count of how many retired numbers line Yankee Stadium's left field wall.
Numbers do not count for inflation.
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"There are a number of organisations within militaries - you have active forces, reserve forces, civilians, and also those that might be working as contractors - so it depends really what you're trying to count when you look at headline numbers, " says James Hackett, the editor of Military Balance.
So if, for instance, its numbers show China's share of world Internet users is half what the CIA's numbers show, Net Applications would count each Chinese browser in its data twice.
The parental emotion is as simple as a learning to count and as strange as discovering that the series of numbers, the counting, never ends.
Mr Mitchell should count himself lucky not to be greeted with an incomprehensible string of numbers - the pager-speak of American teenagers.
He must count on the law showing immediate results next year, pushing large numbers of the 4.4m unemployed (10.6% of the workforce) off the welfare rolls and into work.
The population of the city already numbers more than half a million, and if you count outlying suburbs and independent cities, the total number of people in the metro area is fast approaching two million, more than double what it was just a decade ago.
Like many of the numbers being tossed about in the stem-cell debate, this count is inflated by emotion: Langevin included all patients suffering from cancer, juvenile diabetes, heart disease and even arthritis as potential beneficiaries of the research.
Melanie Holmes, a vice president at Manpower, explains that the net employment outlook tends to track the unemployment numbers put out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, though the surveys count employment in different ways.
The Book of Numbers is so named because of God's command to Moses that he should count the Israelites in preparation for war.
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Matthew Cate, California's prison boss, says that the state has met the court's first target for lowering prisoner numbers and might have to ask for only a short extension to satisfy the final count.
Broadway, a charity, reports increasing numbers sleeping on the streets in London: more than 2, 000 at the last count.
In order to estimate an accurate count of losses from piracy, look at the consumption rates of pirated titles, not the sheer numbers of books downloaded.
Official figures on tick numbers aren't available yet, but the authorities are sufficiently worried to be doing a count.
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