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.
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.
Approximately a third of the total population of the world has been infected with the TB bacterium.
Emerging Markets also account for 85% of the population of the world.
The urban population of the world is forecast to grow to 6.3 billion people in 2050 from 3.4 billion in 2009, representing both population growth and net migration from countryside to city.
Against the odds, with 1% of the world's population, 14% of the world's most highly-cited papers come from UK-based research.
India, with about 17% of world population and a current 3.6% share of world oil consumption might add a percent or two.
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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.
About 60% of today's world population of approximately 6 billion people live there.
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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Net Applications acknowledges that visitors to its customers' websites likely aren't representative of all Internet users, and weights the data by the population of Internet users world-wide, according to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook.
Together, the BRICS nations make up more than 40% of the world population and one-fifth of the global economy.
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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.
Women constitute half of the world population and they are an important part of the media consumers.
With the young age of the population at that time (the US was still an emerging market, ) and additional culling of the population by World War II, not many people tapped into the social security system.
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.
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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Discounting foreign companies, government offices and aid groups, the number tumbles to 14, 500, or less than 0.02% of the population - among the world's lowest levels of usage.
The world's present population of 6.5 billion already exceeds the world's biological carrying capacity and is projected to reach 9.3 billion by 2050.
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.
Y. art collective, a remote-controlled gray blimp that hovered ominously over the ferry on the way to New Jersey and a cheeky presentation from ICQ founder Yossi Vardi on why excessive heat from laptops seriously impairs male gonads and is the root of population decline in certain nations of the developed world.
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.
For the first time in history, Latin America and Africa provide more than half of the population of Catholics in the world today.
South Africa has been badly hit by poaching because it has the largest population of rhinos in the world, with about 20, 000 animals - 70-80% of the global figure.
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.
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.
Overall, Grob said, Qualcomm expects that the cellular networks will be able to handle the explosion of mobile data implied by a fast-growing population of users around the world, each downloading more and more data.
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