Sentences with phrase «people a year globally»

On average, sharks attacked slightly over 80 people a year globally without provocation from 2011 to 2016.

Climate change could kill more than 500,000 people a year globally by 2050 by making their diets less healthy, according to new research published in the Lancet.

The real answer, sadly often, is indeed air pollution, which kills some 3 to 6 million people a year globally.

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Things have improved even more in the past five years, with more than half a billion people globally escaping poverty.

Expectations had run high for Twitter since the messaging service, which for years had fought to revive growth in users, surprised Wall Street in the second quarter by signing up 24 percent more people globally.

As many as 646,000 people are dying globally from seasonal influenza each year, US health officials said in December, a rise from earlier assessments of the disease's death toll.

What people are talking about today: Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, has resigned from the company he built into the world's biggest ad firm, with revenue of $ 19.7 billion last year and 134,413 employees globally.

Globally, 94 % of 12 - 30 year - olds think that it is a right of all people to be happy.

FLU REVIEW Observing mutations that tweak proteins on the surface of the flu virus (3 - D representation, shown) in people with long - term infections may give researchers a preview of how the virus will morph as it spreads globally years later.

«With more than 1.7 million people dying globally from TB each year and the rise of strains that are resistant to drug treatment, we need a better way to prevent this disease,» said the study's principal investigator Louis Picker, M.D., who is the associate director of the OHSU Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and a professor of pathology, molecular microbiology, and immunology in the OHSU School of Medicine.

«This is such a diverse organization, we want people who bring a different perspective and understanding, so we can expand globally,» explains Susan Bunz, human resources and corporate services vice president at Pioneer Hi - Bred, a Dupont business, the plant genetics company that ranked # 4 this year (a big leap from # 19 in 2010).

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have genetically modified mosquitoes to resist infection from dengue virus, a virus that sickens an estimated 96 million people globally each year and kills more than 20,000, mostly children.

Each year, more than 4 million people die globally of complications from inhaling smoke from these stoves.

«There's roughly seven million people who die globally from air pollution every year, so getting rid of coal could take a big chunk out of that number as well,» Pearce says, adding that another goal of future research is to dig deeper into the life cycles of coal production as this study only looked at air pollution - related deaths.

Even when it doesn't lead to diabetes, which kills a million people annually, high blood sugar causes 2.2 million deaths globally from heart disease and stroke every year, Ezzati and his colleagues observe in another report from the same Lancet.

There's something like 80 million people in the U.S. according the recent surveys that are interested in birds in one way or another, you know, feed birds or watch birds, take their kids to a wildlife refuge and yet we keep hearing about more and more reports of declines in birds, you know, doubling of the extinction rates in birds globally in the last 50 years and right now we are on the verge of what I call the third renaissance of bird conservation, first being the Audubon movement at the turn of the century, the second being the Rachel Carson movement of the»60s and third we are on the verge of it right now.

[Cases] spread like wildfire with more than 8,000 people becoming infected globally over a three - year time frame.

SINGAPORE is in the midst of its worst ever outbreak of dengue fever, caused by a virus that attacks around 100 million people globally each year.

More than 110 million people in the EU and the U.S. reported running recreationally in recent surveys; billions of dollars are spent globally each year to purchase running apparel and participate in races.

Alcoholism is a huge problem globally, killing 2.5 million people a year according to the World Health Organization.

«Globally, if you look at the numbers, dengue is still a much bigger problem than Zika,» Metz said, noting that an estimated 25,000 people die from dengue infections each year.

«Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem, directly causing the deaths of around 750,000 people globally each year,» Dr. Matthew Avison, reader in molecular bacteriology at the University of Bristol and senior author of both studies, told Seeker.

Some estimates say 160 million people worldwide could be afflicted by 2050, with more than 7.7 million new cases reported globally each year (that's about one new case every four seconds).

Sold globally for over 15 years, not one person has ever been harmed in any way and countries like Mexico use colloidal silver routinely in every aspect of their daily lives.

«Our vision will continue in the coming years with additional stores and retail exposure globally... Then within the categories you'll also see an evolution like in the beauty category where we're working on the idea of colour and skincare,» says Gorham «I hope to be able to surprise people as we move forward.»

The future of online dating, whether you are looking for the chance to meet a long term partner, or maybe looking for something more casual, does seem to be assured, as the high divorce rate and number of people staying single looks set to continue globally in the years to come.

Hyundai is one of the world's biggest car - makers, employing 110,000 people globally and last year selling almost five million vehicles worldwide, but it wasn't always.

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» said Markus Dohle, the chief executive of Penguin Random House, which has nearly 250 imprints globally.

Millions of people and animals globally have been vaccinated and it is estimated that this saves more than 250,000 human lives a year.

On a per person basis, beef consumption — now averaging less than 20 pounds (8.9 kilograms) each year globally — is unlikely to rebound to the 24 pounds eaten in the 1970s.

It kills 7 million people each year, or one in eight deaths globally.

The company estimates that the new symbol will reach millions of people in the US alone, and that when rolled out globally, 41 million Budweisers sold each day will create annual emissions savings equivalent to taking 48,000 passenger cards off the road for a year.

For instance, we estimated 189 million people to have been living in the 100 - year flood plain in the year 2000, globally, while Jongman et al. [73] estimated 271 million people exposed to 1 - in -100-year coastal flood events in 2010.

That 24 % translates into a very impressive number: 675,000 MW or more than 2.3 trillion KWh per year globally which services more than 1 billion people or about.

Consider how common a disease type 2 diabetes is - 285 million are afflicted globally - and how many of these people have been prescribed Actos over the years.

Over one million people are killed in road accidents globally every year and hundreds of U.S. citizens are among those killed or badly injured in road accidents overseas.

Over recent years we have expanded our operations to become one of the leading global organisations of our kind, employing more than 4,500 people globally.

Safer Internet Day is celebrated globally in February each year to promote the safe and positive use of digital technology for children and young people, and the campaign sees over 1,700 organisations unite to raise awareness of online safety issues and run events and activities right across the UK.

More than one billion children globally have experienced violence in the last year and the Advocate for Children and Young People (Advocate) is asking all adults to sign a pledge to end violence against children now and be part of changing the world forever.

My days are quite busy, but when I take a step back and look at all I have accomplished in a year, I'm proud to have made so many people homeowners, and I appreciate the support of the Century 21 Network, nationally and globally,» says Yeung.