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It is estimated that 1.5 million people perished.
In the United States alone, it is estimated that every year up to 100,000 patients die due to serious adverse drug reactions (ADR’s).
Jordan is estimated to have enough water reserves to support two million people.
The regional market for enhanced local sanitation and water-related services is estimated to be worth over $200 billion.
Already, antibiotic resistance is leading to an estimated 700,000 deaths per year, with financial costs reaching tens of billions of dollars.
A year later, more than 30,000 others made the same perilous journey, and an estimated 6,000 drowned.
But fish do not respect international boundaries, and it is estimated that 42% of the commercial fish being caught travel between countries’ exclusive zones and the high seas.
For years, Cyprus had an immense banking bubble, with the sector’s assets estimated at roughly seven times the country’s GDP, as foreign money poured into a tax haven within the eurozone’s secure environment.
The design of the bailout has been shaped both by domestic pressures faced by eurozone leaders and by the exceptional nature of the Cypriot banking bubble: many European leaders suspect that the island had become a money-laundering center for Russian individuals and entities, which pumped an estimated one-third of the €68 billion into the country’s banks.
In 2011, the American energy company Noble discovered some 200 billion cubic meters of gas in the Eastern Mediterranean – the value of this block, known as the Aphrodite gas field, has been estimated at some €80 billion.
The United States Geological Survey has estimated that the Levant Basin, which extends across the Israeli, Cypriot, and Lebanese seabed, contains some 3.45 trillion cubic meters of recoverable natural gas and 1.7 billion barrels of oil.
Last year, the value of drugs produced in Afghanistan – the world’s largest supplier of opiates – is estimated to have reached up to 25% of GDP.
The Economist reports that in 2010, there were an estimated one million private schools in the developing world, and the figure has since risen quickly.
Likewise, Hu Angang, an economics professor at Beijing’s Tsinghua University, has estimated that corruption in 1999-2001 alone caused economic losses worth RMB1,293 billion ($156 billion), or 13.2% of GDP.
Mexico alone is estimated to have a housing deficit of six million units.
Most forecasts estimated that United Russia, led by such prominent politicians as Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov, Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu, and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, could take up to 30% of the popular vote.
With oil prices higher than ever, its country-risk premiums lower than ever, remittances from abroad, tourism revenues, and foreign investment hitting all time highs, and annual GDP growth estimated at 4.2% for this year, Mexicans – in many ways – have never had it so good.
Annual bilateral trade, estimated at $1.1 billion – a huge figure, given Burma’s total GDP of $9.6 billion – provides an economic lifeline for the Burmese government.
A few years ago, the US Treasury Department estimated that shifting to a territorial system would reduce corporate tax revenue by only $130 billion over ten years.
Each year, cholera claims the lives of an estimated 95,000 people; many who die are children.
Thus, wind power will ultimately be both costlier and reduce emissions less than officially estimated.
It is estimated that most of the UK population was exposed to BSE through diet at this time.
In apparent retaliation, on January 21, Boko Haram launched a daylight attack on government facilities in Kano, including several police posts, killing an estimated 160 people.
The meltdown of a 500-megawatt reactor located 30 miles from a city would cause the immediate death of an estimated 45,000 people, injure roughly another 70,000, and cause $17 billion in property damage.
An estimated 90,000 Ukrainians were reached indirectly.
An estimated 30,000 migrants are now crossing the Serbian border into Hungary every month, spurring the country’s right-wing government to launch the construction of a 110-mile fence to keep them out.
Under these conditions, it is difficult to see how the country can ever offset the damage caused by the various wars of the 1975-2006 period, estimated to have caused $35 billion in damage.
The World Bank estimated the cost of meeting these targets to be an additional $40-$60 billion per year.
Badgett estimated that the Indian economy may have lost up to $23.1 billion in 2012 in direct health costs alone, owing to depression, suicide, and HIV treatment disparities caused by anti-gay stigma and discrimination.
A 2012 study reported that its use averted an estimated 272,040 maternal deaths in 2008, 44% fewer than might otherwise have occurred.
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