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

Helping breeders quickly develop better varieties of all these crops will be crucial as the world population tops 9 billion by 2050 in the face of a changing climate.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

At his 95th birthday party in Dallas last March, Borlaug spoke to VOA about the need to continue expanding food production to meet the needs of a growing world population.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

A Royal Society research team member, Jules Pretty, says the team took into account a number of changes that are expected in coming decades, such as climate change, massive rises in world population, and new consumption patterns.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

But counting the world's third largest population -- about three hundred nine million by current estimates -- is no easy job.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

Ms.Skariah is teaching Indonesians but also learning about the culture of a country with the world's largest Muslim population.

VOA: special.2011.03.28

The United Nations estimates that females age ten to twenty-four are one-eighth of the world's population.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

That is twelve percent more than last year, and equal to two-thirds of the world's population.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

The movie says that the world's shark population has dropped by an estimated ninety percent.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

The refuge contains the largest wintering population of elk in the world.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

Four percent of the world's population plays some form of football.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

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

VOA: special.2010.04.20

IFAD estimates 500 million smallholder farms worldwide are supporting two billion people -- one third of the world's population.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

According to the World Health Organization, one sixth of the world's population suffers from one or more of the neglected diseases.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

And the research that's been conducted on chimpanzees so far says VandeBerghas,already benefited much of the world's population.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

The higher intake of livestock products, the report says, is the result of rising population, urbanization and increasing affluence in many parts of the world.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

The United Nations has predicted the world's population will reach nine billion by 2050.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

The International Monetary Fund along with the EU and World Bank pledged roughly $25 billion to help Hungary and its population of 10 million return to economic growth.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

"The Japanese,in my opinion, are the healthiest population in the world."

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

South Africa has less than one percent of the world's population.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

Some economists say prices for rice, the staple food for much of the world's population, could be returning to levels that sparked inflation fears in much of Asia last year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

That's almost a tenth of the world's population."

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Why?Because this is where you find number one the world's biggest chunk of population - really between India and China there you have it, two-thirds the population just settled in this area.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

Saying President Obama has offered Iran every opportunity for constructive diplomatic dialogue on its nuclear program, Senate Democratic Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry said more robust sanctions are in his words the only way to dramatically increase the economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran from the outside and help leverage pressure on the regime from its own population which wants a different relationship with the world.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25