Cardiovascular disease is the largest cause of death in the world and accounts for almost half of all deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
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This unfortunate policy cycle delays the rebalancing of world accounts that is needed to restore economic equilibrium, and it can freeze the kind of private investment that is needed to get the developed economies going and to boost supply in the emerging markets where there is currently an excess of demand.
Now, that market in the sperm donor world accounts for less than 14 percent, according to projections by Charles Sims, the organization's co-founder and medical director.
Debit card use also rose sharply in the rest of the world, which accounts for more than half of MasterCard's revenue.
It's going to be particularly quick to catch on in those parts of the world where prepaid cell phone accounts are the norm and people are already comfortable with the notion of handing cash to a merchant and getting nothing but an electronic blip in return.
The world outside the U.S. accounts for 60% of the stock market capitalization.
It is the world's biggest economic block: it accounts for more than a quarter of the world's GDP (at purchasing-power parity), compared with the Sinosphere's 15% and the Indosphere's 5.4%.
The clan that controls the Hyatt hotels empire is one of the wealthiest in the world--but by no accounts is it the most cohesive.
The real world systems offering personal accounts as an alternative to Social Security all suffered some losses in the financial crisis, but none of them failed and most of the losses have since been recovered, with workers continuing to enjoy far greater long term returns and benefits from the fully funded and invested personal accounts.
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The investment relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom is the largest in the world, one that accounts for nearly 1 million jobs in each of our economies.
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Happily, however, it has become a favourite spirit in the United States, which accounts for over half the world's tequila consumption.
The group also accounts for a quarter of the world's gross domestic product (GDP) in terms of purchasing power parity.
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.
The American market accounts for nearly 50% of the world's stockmarket valuation.
It is a system that attracts students, both undergraduates and graduate students from all over the world, it's a system that in terms of research, facilities, capital expenditures, the quality of faculty, continues to be by many accounts the best in the world.
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And Vega's traders began to more aggressively take out futures contracts on the commodities market in Malaysia, which, along with Indonesia, accounts for most of the world's palm oil production.
In 1994 China's steelmaking capacity was only 11% of the world total, now it accounts for roughly 25%.
Twitter, which has said it has more than 100 million active accounts around the world, is making a push to become an online-advertising giant like Google.
The response to the earthquake revealed the role Twitter plays in delivering information from a variety of official and unofficial sources, including some eyewitness accounts to the world.
Using SWIFT and a global bank like Citi, a corporate treasury can centralize its accounts around the world, giving the treasurer a real-time view of balances, payments and receivables and also permitting consolidation of funds for overnight or other short-term investing.
"It is also clear from Ambassador Crocker's testimony that after five years of training and equipping the Iraqi security forces, and after five years of reconstruction, it is still the American taxpayer who is shouldering the greatest economic burden in Iraq, while tens of billions of dollars in Iraqi money sit in bank accounts around the world, " said Levin, of Michigan.
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The industry currently accounts for one in 11 jobs in the world.
But although our exports of goods to China rose significantly during most of the 1990's, they grew no faster than such exports to the world as a whole, and China still accounts for less than 2 percent of the total.
The biggest push is in the developing world, particularly India, China, Brazil and Russia, which Duncan says accounts for about 20% of the world's ten million software developers.
According to the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (2006), Bahrain is one of the fastest growing economies in the Arab World due to the growth of its oil industries (which accounts for 30 per cent of the GDP and 60 per cent of export receipts) and the financial (banking), construction and tourism sectors.
The company's pallet business - called CHEP - is the world's largest, and accounts for half of Brambles' operating profits.
Italy already has one of the biggest public debts in the world - the result of decades of failing to balance its national accounts.
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This service is ideal for regions of the world where a large majority of the population may not have bank accounts or where international wires are cost-prohibitive.
The U.S., by our estimate, only accounts for about a third of the world's economy, so almost two-thirds of the value-creating engines of the global economy are outside our borders.
The U.S. accounts for the lion's share of the world's wealth.
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