Its population is less than half what it was in its heyday.

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It appears to be very stable and controlling its revenues in what had been a hugely growing population in southern California.

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The starling, although in the top 10, is giving a lot of cause for concern as its current breeding population is only a quarter of what it was in 1994.

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What it does have going for it is a large population, with most of its 150 million people of working age, and relatively low wages, which helped fuel a manufacturing boom centered around garment making.

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Manoj Benjamin, chairman of Royal Indian Raj International Corp. (RIRIC), says the population is suddenly more attuned to what is available, and thus desirable, thanks to its travels abroad and on the Internet.

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Based on what has happened through the first 9 months of 2012 Russia should achieve modest natural population growth in 2012, its first natural population growth since 1991.

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What amazes him, Myers says, is that a species that may have once outnumbered the American bison population at its height could fall so far so fast.

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