Denmark, Sweden and Norway are examples of countries with a small population that are doing well.
With such a small population, around 320, 000, Iceland's fleet relies on exports.
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Siberia is sparsely inhabited because of a worldwide trend of population movement to cities, and because it is part of a very large country with a proportionally very small population.
Texas, with a relatively small black population of 12%, could not follow that lead.
The genes of the citizens of Iceland turn out to be valuable, scientifically speaking, because Icelanders haven't mixed much with outsiders since a small population founded the country in the year 1100.
In contrast, Japan is a small island with a population of just over 127 million.
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"There is a huge population with small vessel disease where the vessels keep collapsing and occluding, " said Atala.
Estonia, a small country with a population of 1.3 million people, punches above its own weight when it comes to advancements in tech.
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India's tax increase would apply to a relatively small share of the population of a country with 1.2 billion people: Only 42, 800 of them earned more than 10 million rupees and reported it on their tax returns, the finance minister said.
As a public company, it got too much pressure to become profitable for it to further reduce an already small patient population with a diagnostic test.
Ireland is a small enough island, with a population of just 6.4 million people.
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The medieval fortress town of Laval in western France is small and insular, with a population of around 50, 000.
In fact it is anomalous that a group of 30-odd countries with a small fraction of the world's population should be calling the shots.
With a total population of about 650, the small, three-valley community of Solcavsko is well-known in Slovenia for its characters and its particular sense of humour.
Brazil also has a generous land to people ratio, with a large basket of natural resources, including petroleum, for a population that is relatively small (200 million) compared to China and India.
Such strains would have tested any country, let alone a small one with a violent history, a population made up of 18 jealous religious minorities and a weak central state built on power-sharing between them.
From the 1950s onwards, the collective turned a once sleepy, small town of 6, 000 into a city with massive high-rise buildings and a population of exactly 67, 881 in 1989.
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Twenty-five years ago, prescription drugs were a relatively small part of U.S. health care spending, but an aging population has coupled with a dizzying array of pricey drugs with proven benefits.
Still, winning the Republican nomination in a state with an Asian population of just 3% was no small feat for Lim.
In the case of the 32 small states of the Commonwealth and 12 other states with a population of 1.5m or fewer (four other beneficiaries are slightly larger), such planning can now include insurance for all outstanding financial liabilities for three years after the event.
Similarly, when news was distributed using expensive printing presses and delivery trucks, only a small minority of the population had the opportunity to communicate with a mass audience.
The idea that converting a small portion of deposits into equity claims in an economy with a population of barely more than 1 million could be a source of systemic risk suggests the hair-trigger character of the current situation.
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Small cities often look appealing because of high average incomes, but a city with a MAC population of 150, 000 cannot compare with cities that have more than 1 million MAC consumers, even if the latter have lower average disposable incomes.
In contrast, Kenya scores well for education standards, although its system caters for only a small proportion of the population, but public institutions are deemed very poor, with the country's ranking dropping 17 places (to 117th) in the past year alone.
But successful software entrepreneurs are a small fraction of the population, and most likely no judges of the Federal Circuit have close relationships with one.
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