We were losing an average of 700, 000 jobs each month, equivalent to the population of the state of Vermont.
Yet, considering a population of 1.4 billion, if 1% of them were moving out of poverty each year it would be the equivalent of the population of Russia all of a sudden having a little extra cash to spend at the supermarket.
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Immigrant-founded Fortune 500 companies alone employ more than 3.6 million people, a figure equivalent to the entire population of Connecticut.
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That is equivalent to the entire population of Brazil.
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Some 240 tonnes of food spoils during transit and in storage every year, but using mobile to track trucks and monitor the temperature of storage facilities could save enough food to feed 40 million people in 2017 - equivalent to the entire population of Kenya - it said.
This individual doctor has galvanised the regional hospital to such an extent that last year they had the equivalent of 74 donors per million population, double the already high Spanish national level.
According to the International Telecommunication Union, there were almost 6 billion mobile subscriptions at the end of 2011, which is equivalent to 87 percent of the world population.
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The search juggernaut is faced with the endless task of reading and ranking the ever-expanding Web's billions of pages, the equivalent of putting the Earth's population in order from tallest to shortest every few minutes.
That is equivalent to 10% of Jordan's population, and the total could double by the end of the year, the king said.
They are trying to cope with 450, 000 Syrian refugees -- equivalent to some 7% of the Jordanian population -- growing restless and desperate in makeshift camps.
At present, more than 70% of the working population have reached GCSE level or the equivalent.
The number of people over 65 will be equivalent to 60% of the working-age population in Europe in 2050, compared with only 40% in America.
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This would bring the number of Syrian refugees there close to 1.2 million - the equivalent of one-fifth of Jordan's total population.
Around 12m people, equivalent to one-fifth of the country's population, are reckoned to visit it every year, keeping 29, 000 people in a job.
Relative to population the death toll in the last year is the equivalent of 350, 000 thousand Americans or 70, 000 thousand Britons.
Credit ratings agency Fitch has said the country, which has a population of one million, would need 4bn euros to support its banks, the equivalent of almost a quarter of its GDP, or economic output, last year.
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That is equivalent to more than 130 million Americans or about one-third of the U.S. population.
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