But the Christian population is falling in statistical terms partly because it has a much lower birth-rate than the Muslim population around it.

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Climate models simulate the statistical properties of the whole population of all possible climate realizations for a certain set of boundary conditions (which can change with time).

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One of the most interesting things about the HDI report is its home value analysis of the 50 largest U.S. real estate markets (as broken down by population size of Metropolitan Statistical Area).

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To determine this list, we looked at the 25 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas, as ranked by 2000 population by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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To select the best markets for investing, LMM analyzed the 145 Metropolitan Statistical Areas with populations over 400, 000 on a variety of factors, including historic population growth, job growth, housing price changes and the mix of jobs in an area, using data through Sept. 1.

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The number of Russians living in poverty rose another 1.1% last year to a total of around 13% of the population, or 18.1 million living below the national poverty line, government statistical agency Rosstat reported on Thursday.

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Three years ago, the Swiss Statistical Office calculated that, with declining birth rates, stabilising the level of immigration would cut the working population by almost one-third by 2050.

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