Looking still further ahead, by the end of the next century world population is expected to be about ten billion.

再往远看，到下个世纪末，世界人口预期达到一百亿左右。

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The 1939-45 world war involved the mass of the population.

1939至1945年间的世界大战卷入了多数民众。

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On 8 June 2004, more than half the population of the world were treated to a rare astronomical event.

2004年6月8日，世界上一半以上的人有幸目睹了罕见的天文现象。

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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

We live in a world in which almost 50% of the population is under 35.

我们生活在这样一个世界,几乎50%的人口的年龄不到35岁。

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

VOA: special.2010.06.24

Latin America currently has about 8 to 10% of the world's cancer cases, which is to be expected given its population of about 600 million - roughly 9% of the estimated world population of seven billion.

BBC: Hugo Chavez's US 'cancer plot' put to the numbers test

First of all, inequality between rich and poor countries has increased dramatically in the last two decades, with (as James Wolfensohn of the World Bank said) 20% of the world's population controlling 80% of the world's wealth.

BBC: The Lessons of Prague

Approximately a third of the total population of the world has been infected with the TB bacterium.

BBC: More accurate TB test unveiled