Before serving as governor, Palin was the mayor of Wasilla, an Anchorage suburb with a population of less than 7, 000.

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And I pointed out last year that our trade with Russia is only about the same as our trade with Thailand -- a country with less than half the population of Russia.

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Mrs Palin, who has been the governor of a state with a population of 670, 000 for less than two years, is the most inexperienced candidate for a mainstream party in modern history.

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With a population in the USA of less than 500 million people, he just saved himself several hundred billions in loans to those banks that should have gone under.

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The company favors a specific demographic: neighborhoods with median incomes of less than forty thousand dollars and a population that is at least twenty-five-per-cent African-American.

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Payday loan companies justify the charges by noting that they are serving a riskier part of the population, with less documentation and fewer ties to the community.

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But with just 7% of the British population now without a phone, this is less of a problem.

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China has only around 3, 000 cinemas, with less than a tenth of the screens in America for a population five times as big.

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Over half the population lives off less than 2, 400 calories a day, compared with an average of a third for all of India.

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The UN's reason for naming a symbolic date as seven-billion day is to draw attention to the speed of population growth, with less than 13 years having passed between the six-billion and seven-billion milestones.

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