That's nearly half the population, who must be resettled before the winter rainy season if they are to plant the single annual rice crop.
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Recent estimates suggest Pashtuns comprise nearly half the population.
On a much lighter note, global high-speed broadband adoption (defined as any speed equal or greater than 10Mbps) grew by 2.7 percent last quarter, with top honors going to South Korea where nearly half the population enjoys super fast internet access.
Manchester and Liverpool, for example, have lost nearly half their population in the last 40 years.
Nearly half the jail's population has been freed in the past two months.
Christians, 33% of the world's population, make up nearly half of the world's 214 million living migrants, the study shows.
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Today nearly half the U.S. population carries a smartphone, and the penetration rate is still growing by double digits every quarter.
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With a state takeover of Detroit, nearly half of the state's African-American population will live in a city under state control.
Blacks comprise 12% of the American population, but represent nearly half of those in prison or jail.
Though they account for only about 7% of the world population, countries in the EU have hosted about half the Games and have won nearly half of the medals ever awarded.
The geography of the French court system has not changed in nearly half a century, despite huge population shifts.
The grouping represents two-thirds of the world's population, nearly two-thirds of its wealth and almost half of its trade.
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