As the population grows from its current 1.3 billion, experts estimate the swelling population will require about ten million new housing units to be built each year for the next twenty years.
From sample surveys, officials estimate the population at the end of 2009 to have been 1.33 billion.
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Now city officials estimate the population at around 300, 000, and the paper's circulation was down to 179, 834 for the six months ending March 31, 2008.
He said the lowest estimate for the population in six years was 83, 100, the middle projection 88, 900 and the highest calculation 94, 800.
That 15 billion is the high estimate and if the report is anything at all like the last few then the low estimate will say that population in 2100 is going to be a bit lower than it is now.
If it used these sampling methods, the Census Bureau says, there is a 90% chance that its estimate of America's population would be within 0.1% of the true number.
It will allow a more accurate estimate of Nigeria's population (censuses are usually marred by violence and fibbing, because states with more people get more money from the central government).
According to one recent estimate, one quarter of the population of southern Africa may die of Aids.
The population does mean you get a more precise estimate of BMI simply by averaging over large numbers.
In an e-mail, Campanella said he bases this rough estimate on the 2006 Louisiana Health and Population Survey.
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Without huge improvements, according to a decade-old official estimate, by 2050, when its population will be a shade under 1.7 billion, India will run short of water.
In 1990 he estimated that there were 20 billion birds in the continental US (excluding Hawaii and Alaska) after the breeding season each year, so his upper estimate would represent 5% of that population.
By looking at the average number of page views per user per month and the average page load time, I was able to develop an estimate of the total hours the US population wastes each year due to slow web application performance.
By one estimate a quarter of the world's population--1.6 billion people--still don't have access to electricity.
Of course, we do need to consider all of the possibilities but over the decades actual out turns have been at the low estimate or below: which is why peak population in these predictions has been falling over those decades.
So far, Transition estimate between 10 and 15 per cent of the population have had some involvement with them.
For the country's fast-growing population of Internet users (46m, according to an official estimate), it is proving an elusive creature.
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The current estimate is simply based on a guess that the population has been growing at 2.9% a year since then.
Experts estimate that as much as 2% of the population meets the criteria, a group that spans all education and income levels.
Government statistics estimate that about 4% of Myanmar's population of 60 million is Muslim, but scholars say it could be as high as 10% since the official count doesn't include ethnic groups such as the Rohingyas.
CNN's estimate of the number of Democrats in the voting age population as a whole indicates the sample is about 3 to 4 points more Democratic than the population as a whole, but also about 2 to 3 points more Republican than the population as a whole.
If this was the case, looking at the population who would have eaten infected meat, they used computer programmes to estimate there could be a total of around 70 deaths from vCJD.
In a population of 11 million, at least 140, 000 are infected with the virus - an estimate many experts believe understates the incidence by half.
Whale researchers use population models that factor a species' reproductive rate and its natural mortality to come up with an estimate of how many are likely dying.
Rikuzentakata officials estimate more than 1, 000 people have moved away in the past year, leaving a population of about 20, 000.
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