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By contrast, London and the southeast have accounted for 26.8% of population, 37.7% of GVA, and 39% of new jobs.
Before 1949, India absorbed roughly 60% of Pakistan’s exports and accounted for 70% of its imports.
While climbing the world’s highest mountain will always be dangerous, we must remember that on this occasion only Sherpas died, and in the years since Everest began attracting large inflows of Western climbers, Sherpas have accounted for most fatalities.
According to International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, emerging economies accounted for over 80% of global growth in the aftermath of the crisis, and now contribute 60% of global GDP.
Developing countries as a whole accounted for more than 80% of global reserve accumulation during this period, and their current level of reserves approaches $5 trillion.
By 2013, these represented less than 20% of the total, while machinery and chemicals accounted for 56%.
Indeed, South Africa and Angola alone accounted for 73% of the region’s inward FDI in 2003.
Relative decline is obvious: Europe accounted for 20% of the world’s population at the beginning of the eighteenth century, but only around 7% today, while its share is expected to be even lower in 2050.
Once the elite institutions are accounted for, what remains is decidedly uneven in quality.
This has in large part accounted for Barroso’s high hopes of getting a second term.
With 1,780 patent applications, California accounted for 15% of all patents sought by MENA-linked inventors worldwide.
The systemic crises in food, fuel, and finance that came to a head in 2008 – and that are ongoing in many countries – have their roots in an economic paradigm that has not accounted for the value of nature and its array of life-supporting services.
Since the first quarter of 2009, when the US economy was bottoming out after its worst postwar recession, exports have accounted for fully 41% of the subsequent rebound.
Three regions have collectively accounted for 83% of America’s export-led growth impetus over the past three years – Asia, Latin America, and Europe.
Brazil and Mexico collectively accounted for 19 percentage points of that increase.
Finally, there is the sad case of Europe, which has accounted for 21% of the cumulative growth in US exports over the past three years.
What we do know is that the United Kingdom, Germany, and France – the so-called core economies – collectively accounted for just 3.5% of total US export growth since early 2009, with the UK grabbing the bulk of that increase.
Greenspan’s warning in 1998 came at a time when US exports accounted for only about 10.5% of GDP.
Tourism – which previously accounted for more than 10% of Turkey’s GDP – is withering, and foreign direct investment is set to slow considerably.
Between 2001 and 2008, export growth accounted for more than 40% of China’s overall economic growth.
In 1948, Christians accounted for roughly 20% of the population of what was then Palestine; since then, their numbers have roughly halved.
And FiftyNifty itself has accounted for more than 1,200 calls lasting over 31 hours.
In 2013, biofuels accounted for 3% of the total transport fuel used around the world, according to a report by the Food and Agricultural Organization and the OECD.
In the last decade, export growth has accounted for roughly one-third of China’s overall economic growth, and about one-third of Chinese exports went to the European Union.
But its top 12 tariff lines – 3% of all tariff lines – accounted for 59.7% of the total value of its exports to the US.
The affected earnings would include, for example, a significant share of foreign income earned by US multinationals in the EU, which accounted for about 45% of US multinationals' total foreign income in 2012.
While the distribution profiles between employees and revenue could be sharply dissimilar in some companies, on average they were almost identical: for a sub-sample of 73 companies among Europe’s top 100, the home base represented 37% of employees and 35% of revenue on average in 2005, while the rest of Europe accounted for 29% of employees and 28% of revenue.
By 1950, China’s share of world GDP had fallen to under 5%, while all of Asia accounted for just 18%, the biggest chunk of which was attributable to Japan, despite its defeat in WWII.
Its two giants, India and China, are especially determined, as Indian author Ashutosh Sheshabalaya recently put it, “to return to their nineteenth-century status, when they accounted for well over half of world economic output.”
From 1950 to 1980, the north accounted for almost 80% of global GDP but only 22% of its population, and the south accounted for the remainder of global population and 20% global income.
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