The direction of prices is important because rice is the main staple of more than half the world's population, making its price a focus of attention for world economists.
Terai accounts for about a fifth of Nepal's land area but is home to slightly more than half of its population, with the two ethnic groups making up just over a quarter of this.
Half a century later, more than half of Detroit's population is gone, victims of downturns in the auto industry and a racial divide that continues to this day.
Mr Brown, on a week-long tour of Africa, spent two days in Tanzania before heading on Friday evening to Mozambique, a country where more than half of the 17-million population lives below the poverty line.
The most significant trend, however, appeared to be the nation's new count of 50.5 million Latinos, whose massive expansion accounted for more than half of the nation's overall growth of 27.3 million people, to a new overall U.S. population of 308.7 million, officials said.
Thanks partly to the Irish diaspora, created by a century and a half of emigration, the country has far more clout than its small population might suggest.
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.
If the transition is a success, it will put Afghan forces in the lead in protecting more than half of the country's population, officials said.
Paulton has a population of just under 5, 000, so come Saturday more than half the village could find themselves at the Winterfield Road ground which will have a 2500 capacity.
Pakistan's gambit has also drawn grumbling from American officials, who continue to press for a major military offensive to rout out the Taliban in North Waziristan, which itself has a population of more than half a million.
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And Saudi Arabia has such a young population - 45% are under 15 - that foreign workers make up more than half of the total workforce, according to some estimates.
Certainly our view of introverted leaders is more positive than a decade, or even 5 years ago, as researchers continue to push forward our understanding of this half of the population.
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