So for our list we looked at only the 75 largest countries in terms of total GDP.
That was far more than the combined gross domestic products of all of the largest countries on earth.
But, he added, some of the EU's largest countries such as France, Spain and Italy were also at risk.
Germany, France, Italy and Spain are the four largest countries in the eurozone.
Among the twenty largest countries, the U.S. ranks second only to Canada.
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The U.S. spends more on defense than the seven largest countries combined.
"If iPad Nation were a country, it would be in the top 10 largest countries in the world with more than 100 million citizens, " McQuivey said.
On March 28th, China Eastern Airlines was due to fly into Delhi from Beijing, inaugurating the first ever direct air link between the world's two largest countries.
As they point out, three of the largest countries, plus one other, can block any decision, whereas it takes a big coalition of small countries to achieve such a result.
The U.S. ranked 19th out of the 30 largest countries in the study, with 429 deaths per million adults due to eating too much sodium (representing 1 in 10 U.S. deaths due to heart-related causes).
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All along, both Russia and the West have been taking a close interest in Ukraine's election, not just because it is one of eastern Europe's largest countries, with 49m people, but because the outcome could have important consequences for the whole region.
However, the gap was largest in countries with the least equality between the sexes (by any score), such as Turkey.
Quite apart from the importance to the global economy of reasonable relations between its largest component countries, there is a long list of strategic concerns.
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And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.
Political stability, a young well educated population and the rise of Asia as an economic dynamo have created a boom in one of the largest Muslim countries in the world, which also sits on the fault line between two continents.
The government's debt is around 180% of GDP, the largest among industrialised countries.
These Grand Challenges for Development are definable, quantifiable goals that address some of the largest solvable problems poor countries currently face.
The structural deficit - which is the part expected to be impervious to economic recovery - is the largest of all the countries in the G7.
The new combined organisation will retain the American Airlines name and offer more than 6, 700 daily flights to 336 destinations in 56 countries (to compare, United, the second largest airline, flies to 186 destinations in 69 countries).
The government says that the Pisa findings show that England is one of the countries with the largest numbers of high-achieving students.
On a constant-exchange-rate basis, sales increased 45 percent same store sales increased 41 percent, due to growth in most countries with the largest increase in the greater China region.
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Sales both at the top and bottom of the consumer market are rapidly growing while sales are being squeezed hard in the middle, though it is still the largest market segment in rich countries.
It surveys 600 companies in more than 20 countries across 16 industries and provides an extensive statistical picture of everything from countries with the largest percentage of women chief executives in their large companies (Finland at 13%) to industries with the lowest percentage of women in their workforce (mining at 18%).
By 2025, these four countries will be the largest consumers of LNG, according to a presentation by BG Group Plc.
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Learning English is in high demand internationally, and Germany, Switzerland and South Korea are among the countries that pay the largest teacher salaries.
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And this is even more important and has a greater significance when we remember that the U.S. and Brazil are the two countries that has the largest black population outside Africa.
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The five countries the Burmese president is visiting are not Europe's largest, but every step on the world stage involving this once most isolated of countries is carefully watched for signs of how well its democratic transformation is progressing, reports BBC South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head.
The countries have two of the largest economies in the world and need each other for support going forward.
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The turmoil in the world's emerging markets in 1997 and 1998 hit Germany, the world's second-largest exporter, harder than other developed countries.
Of the ten largest fiscal retrenchments carried out by OECD countries since the 1970s, seven were pushed through by coalition or minority governments.
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