Last year around 715, 000 were started (compared with some 225, 000 in Britain, which has a population one-third bigger than Spain's).
Ah, but wait, by far the majority of those active service members will be male (women only just this past week being cleared for combat operations for example) so perhaps we should use the male suicide rate, not the population one?
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Exchange plans could be required to do separate actuarial value calculations: one for the regular Exchange population (using provider rates applicable to that population) and one for the Medicaid population (using the much lower rates typically used by Medicaid health plans).
About 10% of these untreated individuals (350, 000 people) comprise one-third of the homeless population, one-fifth of the inmates in jails and prisons, and cause at least 10% of all U.S. homicides.
It may be that there is only so much economic anxiety that one population can stand at any one time.
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The U.S. population is one third smaller than that of the European Union and Switzerland combined.
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These threats pose a host of new technical challenges because they often involve a population of one.
Istanbul has been in the midst of a fantastic transformation from an impoverished population to one of affluence.
Together, the BRICS nations make up more than 40% of the world population and one-fifth of the global economy.
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There are 166 cities with a population over one million in China at this time, and more are on the way.
"You can achieve the same level of protection for the population at one-third the cost doing an intervention like this, " Fowler said.
The Census Bureau projects that in 2007 migrants, legal and illegal, will increase the U.S. population by one person every 27 seconds.
And so was nurtured an abiding faith among the local population that one of the prime functions of a city government is targeted economic development.
There is always me, and I am not a group, I am a study population of one, and my life is precious and therefore priceless.
"We're also the oldest city in Italy demographically, with an aging population and one of the lowest birth rates in the country, " Mr. Fantinel says.
Beech cited the aging of the world's population as one factor.
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Known today, rather prosaically, as Angkor Archaeological Park, the 150-square-mile site was the political and cultural centre of the Khmer empire and at its peak supported a population of one million.
The largest of the three islands, Curacao also has the biggest population and one of the highest standards of living in the Caribbean due to its well-developed oil refining business and other industries.
Comparing the total outlets to U.S. population, one gets a gruesome but meaningful ratio (mouths per deep fryer?), and sees that during the years 2007-2009 fast food outlets grew scarcer relative to the overall population.
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Credit ratings agency Fitch has said the country, which has a population of one million, would need 4bn euros to support its banks, the equivalent of almost a quarter of its GDP, or economic output, last year.
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The paucity of family doctors naturally has a particularly strong impact on rural communities, which are home to around one-fifth of America's population but only one-tenth of its doctors, most of whom practise family medicine.
They won't match that in Saskatchewan, which has a population of about one million.
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The U.S. has nine cities with a population more than one million, China has 107.
One population of mammoths lived on in isolation on Russia's remote Wrangel Island until about 5, 000 years ago.
In the late 1960s the population was about one-third Catholic and two-thirds Protestant.
Just .0001% of the U.S. population, or one in every million people, are members of the Forbes Billionaires club.
Then there is the third measure, championed by Milanovic himself, which is to treat the world just as one population.
He said the differences from one population to another "cannot be accounted for either by genetic make-up or environmental influences".
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