The United Nations says more than two and a half billion people around the world do not have good sanitation.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

That was one and a half percent of the world economy, and just losses from early death and disability.

VOA: special.2010.08.25

The World Health Organization estimates that cardiovascular disease killed seventeen and a half million people in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Leaders of the world's biggest economies agreed Sunday to cut their deficits by half or more by twenty thirteen.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

This year's Forbes magazine list of the world's richest people estimated her wealth at almost two and a half billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

The world's largest drug company has agreed to pay almost two and a half billion dollars for illegal marketing of medicines.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

But close to half a million confirmed cases were reported to the World Health Organization as of November first.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

The World Health Organization says tobacco kills nearly five and a half million people a year -- another victim every six seconds.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

Foursquare's owners say they now have more than six and a half million users around the world.

VOA: special.2011.03.14

He notes a World Health Organization estimate that more than one and a half million people a year die from breathing smoke from solid fuels.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

Experts say over half of the world's seven thousand languages are in danger of disappearing.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

More than one and a half billion people around the world live without electricity.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

Currently the virus is most active in the northern half of the world.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Scientists say this is because when the Chazy Reef began to form hundreds of millions of years ago, it was in the southern half of the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Haiti is the poorest nation in the western half of the world.

VOA: special.2010.01.16

Currently,the virus is most active in the northern half of the world.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

That represents more than half of the world's population.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

That is almost half the farmland in the world.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

Malaria,diarrhea,and typhoid- water-related diseases that are not fatal in First World countries- cause half of the child deaths in Yemen.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

The World Health Organization aims to reduce by half the number of people who die from tuberculosis by the year 2015.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

APEC is made up of 21 Pacific Rim economies, which account for about half of world trade.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

The World Health Organization estimates about two million people die prematurely every year due to air pollution, more than half in developing countries.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

It says suicide deaths account for more than half of all violent deaths in the world more than all deaths from wars and homicides combined.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

And every minute and a half, another mother dies giving birth somewhere in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

That's the Fairtrade Foundation's idea behind this "tea dance" - letting people know they can choose products that will make a difference half a world away.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

He says it is increasingly important to do this analysis in connection with urbanization because more than half of the world population lives in urban areas.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

The director of Afghanistan Rights Monitor,Ajmal Samadi, tells VOA that the debate half-a-world away is alienating the people of Afghanistan, causing them to question Washington's commitment.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

The World Gold Council says, in the first half of the year, India's gold imports slumped by 26 percent, dropping to their lowest level in six years.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19