Distribution of global runoff is highly uneven and corresponds poorly to the distribution of the world population.
Women constitute half of the world population and they are an important part of the media consumers.
Together, the BRICS nations make up more than 40% of the world population and one-fifth of the global economy.
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Where will it go?? China, with about 19% of the world population and currently about a 10% share of consumption could move up to 15%.
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Asghar said the subcontinent constituted a huge chunk of the world population with most of the cricket's revenue being generated in that part of the world.
Over 1.2 billion people in the world are between 15 and 24 years of age, a growing number that amounts to nearly 17 percent of the world population.
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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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.
As developing economies like China and India create more regional centers of financial power, a strong EU is "life insurance" for Germany's future, especially as the eurozone represents only about 9% of the world population, Westerwelle continued.
First of all, inequality between rich and poor countries has increased dramatically in the last two decades, with (as James Wolfensohn of the World Bank said) 20% of the world's population controlling 80% of the world's wealth.
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.
Against the odds, with 1% of the world's population, 14% of the world's most highly-cited papers come from UK-based research.
From tiny leptanilline ants that look like a dusting of pepper to Australia's 5cm (2-inch) bulldog ants, the weight of the Formicidae family is equal to that of the world's population of humans and accounts for 10% of the biomass of all the creatures on the planet.
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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While the United States makes up less than 5 percent of the world's population, we create roughly a quarter of the world's demand for oil.
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In one generation it has lifted most of the third quartile of the world's population (by income) from poverty to the middle class.
On behalf of UNESCO, Dr. Shahbaz Khan s presentation focused on the water issue with reference to energy needs of the growing world population.
It's a global problem, and we need a global solution, and we need the help of all the Muslims, 25 percent of the world's population, to help us uproot this problem.
Underpinning this development is the integration of half the world's population into the global market economy, and the deepening and broadening of the capital and derivative markets.
Sometime after midnight on Monday, the 31st of October, the world population will hit the 7 billion mark for the first time, according to information made available by the UN Population Fund ( UNFPA).
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Approximately one-half of the world's population lives in rural areas, according to the World Health Organization, and most of them usually lack trained health care workers.
Eight of the top 10 are from the U.S., as are 271 of the entire pack--just over 50% of the world's superrich from little more than 4% of the world's population.
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.
The Brics bloc represent 40% of the world's population, with some estimating that it contributes about a fifth to the world economy.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan from solemnly intoning that the real task is get the Net into the hands of that majority of the world's population that hasn't never even made a telephone call.
South Africa has been the focal point of poaching because it has the largest population of rhinos in the world, with 1, 916 black rhinos and 18, 780 white rhinos, the conservation group said.
By 1998, 117 of the count by then of 193 countries were broadly democratic, accounting for 54% of the world's population.
The very success of many parts of the world in limiting population has sapped donors' enthusiasm.
Is it because China has 22% of the world's population but only 7% of its fresh water?
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