Sentences with phrase «population of millions»

An individual bat can consume its body weight in insects in a night, so the loss of a regional population of millions of bats adds up to a huge number of uneaten insects in the night sky.

He spent the next 11 months negotiating hostage releases, holding elections and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure for a population of millions teetering on the brink of civil war.

A random sample of 30 people from a population of millions will give very accurate results per the entire population, let alone 100.

It is an entire human settlement, built with government support, for a population of millions who — for whatever reason — have yet to arrive.

Except, Bob, the entire population of birth giving is not a single woman, it is a population of millions of women a year.

There were 16 countries in the world with a population of a million or more and a growth rate similar to China's in 1970.

Not exact matches

If a tiny portion of India's population reaches college educated, upper - middle class status, say 5 per cent — that's like 65 million people.

The country also receives a «B» on scientific articles, measured as the number of peer - reviewed scientific articles produced in natural sciences and engineering per million population.

China's working population is projected to decline by more than 10 % by 2050, while the number of retirees will triple, to more than 300 million.

The startup targets renters, a population that is currently about 60 percent uninsured in the U.S. — and a potential market of nearly 65 million people.

Out of a total population of around 32.5 million people, the majority are in their mid-30s or younger, according to government data.

With a population of under 3 million, the capital of Taiwan is relatively modest sized in comparison to other start - up cities in the region.

The US already lives with a nuclear - armed North Korea that can level Seoul, South Korea's capital and home to metro - area population of 25 million civilians.

A 2010 University of Brasilia study found that 1 in 5 Brazilian women under 40 — more than 5 million women overall, or about 22 % of Brazil's population — had had at least one abortion.

In 2008, just over 3,000 legal abortions were performed in the entire country — a tiny number given that Brazil has a population of 200 million.

In fact, a recent survey found that 86.5 million Americans — 42 percent of the adult population — had used at least one on - demand service, and some 45 million Americans, roughly 22 percent of the adult population, had reported having worked in the growing on - demand economy.

Seoul, home to half of South Korea's 50 million - person population, also houses up to 3,500 start - ups and around 100 accelerators, most notably in its famed Gangnam district.

• VirtualHealth, New York City - based provider of population health and care management technologies, raised $ 7 million from investors led by Edison Partners.

But, at least in the venture capital world, funding for companies focused on tackling heart disease, respiratory disease, and other mass population conditions — i.e., those that afflict millions upon millions of people — has dropped sharply in the last decade.

Medicaid now covers over 70 million Americans, nearly 50 % of all child births, and 20 % of the Medicare population.

This is where data is important, because just going on gut feeling to demonstrate your market share — «If I just capture one percent of the U.S. population, that makes our market share 31 million people!»

Facebook, which has about 30 million active users in Germany out of a population of 80 million, has run a major advertising campaign in the country in recent weeks in an attempt to address concerns about privacy and control of personal data.

Europe's largest city is also the gateway to 76 million Turks and the Turkic populations of Russia and Central Asia — a vast, underserved market.

Its population, just 1.3 million, is about the same as Dallas or the Bronx borough of New York City.

The Kansai region surrounding Osaka has a population of about 21.6 million people and a gross regional product of some $ 823 billion.

Taxes naturally rise with the economic expansion due to rising population, which has gone up about 13.8 % since 2000: from 281 million residents of the USA to 320 million in 2015.

Somalia is close to vital oil routes and its ports could also serve landlocked Ethiopia, which has a population of 100 million.

The entire country has a population of 2.8 million, around a third of London.

In a little over two years, the service has registered 31 % of Zimbabwe's adult population, a group responsible for more than $ 200 million in transactions per month — that's about 22 % of the country's GDP — using their mobile phones.

The Pittsburgh - based specialty pharmacy grew its revenue by 13,380 percent in three years to $ 42 million by focusing on the small populations of underserved patients who need orphan drugs to treat serious illnesses.

The RBNZ's challenges became immediately apparent after the central bank decision, with investors lifting the local dollar to a one - year peak despite the easing and threatening to depress both exports and inflation in New Zealand's small open economy with a population of 4.7 million.

Between 2008 and 2010, the number of visitors to Lower Manhattan grew to nine million from seven million, according to the Downtown Alliance, the local business improvement district, while the residential population has more than doubled since 2000, to 56,000 from 22,904.

The city of Rantoul was devastated when the base closed, having lost more than half its population and $ 100 million in commercial spending.

The country boasts a nearly double - digit growth rate, youthful demographics — as 70 percent of its 80 million population is under 35 — low trade barriers and a corporate - tax rate of 20 percent.

As our country's population continues to age (according to the U.S. Census, by the year 2030, there will be over 57.8 million «baby boomers» between the ages of 66 and 84), the demand for quality homecare is sure to increase.

Filipinos are one of the world's largest diaspora populations, with more than 10 million — that's one in ten — seeking work abroad.

The first eight have a combined population of eight million people — the ninth country is the U.S., with 315 million people.

To understand how significant this difference could be, consider these numbers: There are approximately 22 million noncitizens in the United States — which amounts to 7 percent of the population.

Migrant workers comprise two - thirds of Kuwait's population of 4 million, which has the highest migrant worker - to - citizen ratio in the Middle East.

Singapore has a population of roughly 5.4 million, up from about 4.03 million in 2000, according to government data.

In May, a record 45.8 million Americans (nearly 15 % of the population) relied on food stamps for survival, a 12 % increase from last year and 34 % jump from 2009.

Life expectancy at birth Infant mortality rate (figures for Korea and New Zealand were taken from the CIA World Factbook, 2005 data) % of population over age 15 considered obese and overweight Prison population rate Motor vehicles per 1,000 people Road fatalities per million people Road fatalities per million vehicles (figures for Mexico taken from the North American Transportation Statistics Database)

Like pollsters and data scientists have been doing for decades, we normalize our data against U.S. census data, ensuring that our panel of millions accurately matches the U.S. population to remove any age or gender bias (though urban geographies are slightly over-represented in our panel).

There will be 119 million Americans over 50 by 2020, according to AARP, one - third of the total population.

Now, roughly 80 % of the city's population — nearly six million people — lives in these buildings, which are known as HDBs, from the name of the Housing and Development Board.

The goal, he says, is not to sell to all 300 million Americans; rather, the goal is to expand his company's reach in the U.S. Northeast, which, he adds, is about the same size as Canada in terms of population.

Unique trade preferences granted by the U.S. under the HOPE Act has Haitian entrepreneurs dreaming of growing a garment industry with 1 million workers in a country with a population of 10 million.

In the last 20 years, the city's population has doubled, to almost one million, about the size of Calgary, while the population of the state has doubled, to about 1.8 million.

Mexico's middle class now boasts more than 40 million people, surpassing the total population of Canada.

LinkedIn has 38 million members in about 200 countries, but in Hoffman's mind, that's merely a good start: He expects a quarter of the planet's population to sign up eventually.