Sentences with phrase «capita than any other country»

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Last year, Hungary received more refugees per capita than any other EU country apart from Sweden.

Regulations have twisted the laws of supply and demand, causing Western Canada's biggest metropolitan area to have fewer taxis per capita than any other city in the country.

There are more guns per capita in the U.S. than any other country on the planet, TWICE as many as the next country... YEMEN.

Many Americans assume that because we are the richest country in the world, with real G.D.P per capita higher than that of other major advanced countries, Americans must be better off across the board - that it's not just our rich who are richer than their counterparts abroad, but that the typical American family is much better off than the typical family elsewhere, and that even our poor are well off by foreign standards.

U.S. government leaders and an «objective» press described the Sandinistas in Nicaragua as «communist,» «Marxist,» «Marxist / Leninist,» «totalitarian,» «Cuban - backed,» or «Soviet - backed» so often that few U.S. citizens knew that Sweden was giving more aid to Nicaragua per capita than to any other country or that while Nicaragua does have both a Communist party and a Marxist - Leninist party these two parties together received less than 3 percent of the vote and are distinct from and hostile to the Sandinista party.

As Taylor documents, over 2 million people are incarcerated in the U.S., which works out to a per capita rate up to ten times higher than most other countries on the planet, including China and Russia.

Fourth, while the United States may spend more on healthcare than most other countries by per capita levels, it does not translate to a better standard of care for most people, but only the minority who have significant financial means.

Australia relies heavily on coal for its own electricity as well, emitting more CO2 per person than any other developed country, and its agricultural emissions are among the highest per capita in the world, mainly because of the large numbers of sheep and cattle.

On a per capita basis, Sweden has granted more refugee applications than any other high - income country, and in 2011, refugees constituted 12 % of the total immigrant population.

Consider: We spend 50 percent more per capita on health care than any other country, for a total of $ 2 trillion a year, yet our health system, according to the World Health Organization, ranks 37th worldwide (France is number one).

Americans buy more soft drinks per capita than people in any other country.

Coffee drinking is an integral part of our culture, and more coffee is consumed in the US than any other country (however, on a per capita basis we...

Mayonnaise is the # 1 condiment in America and other countries even use more per capita than USA does.

In Australia, for example, IBIS World has estimated annual turnover relating to online dating revenue to exceed 100 million dollars, indicating that Australia, per capita, uses online dating services more than any other country in the world.

Reading fever in the Netherlands Hardly any other European country boasts more books sold and read per capita than the Netherlands.

The San Antonio Express News declared: «San Antonio faces a grim reality: It kills more animals per capita than any other major city in the country.»

Golf: Naples, Florida is the self - proclaimed «Golf Capital of the World», with the second-most golf holes per capita than any other community in the country.

Also, back to the media, I'm amazed that the media (here, I'm talking in general and on average, not Dot Earth) don't point out the nonsense and un-wisdom in some of the arguments that suggest that we, in America, should be able to have per capita emissions that are an order of magnitude higher than those of people in many other countries.

Since industrial nations have far higher per capita emissions than other countries (e.g., US = 20 tons / yr, Europe = 10 tons / yr, China = 4 tons / yr), industrial nations will have to reduce a lot more if some degree of fairness is to be achieved (without which important nations like China or India are not going to join the effort).

She added that China is moving away from the old argument that it has no responsibility to act on emissions yet because, like India and other large emerging industrial powers, it still has per - capita emissions many times lower than those in wealthy countries.

So there you are... Top 5 emitters (2007): China, USA, India, Russia, Japan Top 5 per capita emitters (2006, ignoring small countries emitting less than 0.5 % of the world total which would other crowd the list): USA, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Khazakstan

According to Wikipedia, Denmark (a very small and densely populated Scandinavian country that has more wind power per capita than any other nation) has quite a few off - shore wind farms, Sweden has only one wind farm with more than 10 turbines.

[iv] In one sense, having high per capita emissions makes it easier for Australia to cut emissions than other countries, because there is more «low - hanging fruit».

If you were only relying on population as a threshold for urbanness, you would probably assume Barrow was unaffected.Similarly, the per capita electricity usage in some countries is much greater than in others.

While India as a whole demands a significant percent of the world's biocapacity, its per - capita Ecological Footprint, 0.8 global hectares, is smaller than that in many other countries, and well below the world average of 2.2 global hectares.

The poor people of Bhutan therefore are suffering because of the selfishly greedy people of the USA who, per capita, produce far more greenhouse gasses than any other country on Earth and refuse to do anything significant to curb their emissions.

Where is the evidence that they will agree to anything sufficient in 2020, when their per capita incomes will still be markedly lower than other developed countries?

Are you aware that the United States is much more responsible for elevated atmospheric ghg concentrations than any other country including China because of US historical and per capita emissions?

Denmark uses more wind power than any other country per capita.

The United States is not only responsible for the current crisis because, as President Obama noted, it is the second highest emitter of ghg in the world behind China, it has historically emitted much more ghgs into the atmosphere than any other country including China, it is currently near the top of all nations in per capita ghg emissions, and the US has been responsible more than any other developed nation for the failure of the international community to adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction targets from the beginning of international climate negotiations in 1990 until the Obama administration.

The southeast has more coal ash per capita than any other region of the country, so we hope Rep. Johnson's southern colleagues will co-sponsor and publicly support H.R. 4827.

Every year, one of the projects I give my students is to figure out how the global community can address the climate risk, given that it requires concerted global action, that some countries cause more emissions per capita than others, that some are endowed with abundant fossil fuel resources, and that some are richer than others.

If Alberta were a country, its per capita greenhouse gas emissions would be higher than any other country in the world.

Firstly, in a sleight of hand it pivots away from its weak absolute emission reductions to trumpet expected per capita emission reductions, claiming Australia will reduce its emissions per person by more than other countries.

First some countries much more than others are contributing to global atmospheric ghg concentrations on a per capita and total tons basis.

Indeed, it seems that other countries share his view, performing far more surgeries per capita than Britain.

However, the report noted that the average injury claim in Ontario was about five times more than the average claim in other provinces, resulting in much higher premiums here, despite having one of the lowest per capita rates of automobile - accident deaths and injuries in the country.

Baltimore has more public monuments per capita than any other city in the country and is home to some of the earliest National Register historic districts in the nation, including Fell's Point (1969), Federal Hill (1970) and Mount Vernon Place (1971).

Although a causative link has not been demonstrated conclusively, countries with extensive home - visiting programs generally have lower infant mortality rates than does the United States, despite per capita health spending in the United States that far exceeds expenditures in other industrialized countries.1