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Given its population size and huge economic potential, Myanmar is a market that has huge opportunity for growth given the need for infrastructure development, better healthcare facilities and power generation in both urban and rural areas.
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Latin America currently has about 8 to 10% of the world's cancer cases, which is to be expected given its population of about 600 million - roughly 9% of the estimated world population of seven billion.
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Florida is the biggest prize in this sweepstakes given its rapid population growth.
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The reason: Even assuming that Japan's economy grows at a moderate rate (an optimistic assumption given its shrinking population), the deficit would continue to expand at least until 2005, at which point gaps in Japan's pension system would start to appear.
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Turkey may be unwilling to support such a move, not least given its own restive Kurdish population.
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Analysts say that Singapore tends to limit bank entrants in the city-state given its a small market and relatively smaller population.
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Each state is given a number of votes based on its population.
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"Given the increase in sweet beverage consumption in Europe, clear messages on its deleterious effect on health should be given to the population, " Dr Romaguera and colleagues conclude in their research paper.
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The project may be ambitious, but Kant notes that its supersonic timeframe is necessary given the speed the country's young population is growing.
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Its variability is a measure of the number of females in a population at a given time.
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The business depends on exports for 50% of its business, and the other 50% may not be so secure given that a stronger yen and an aging population are leading some companies to shift production out of Japan, including the likes of Toyota Motor.
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