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WHO Director Margaret Chan said, "For once, if you are poor, female, or from an indigenous population, you have a distinct advantage, an ethic that makes this medical school unique."

Growth was maybe 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 percent, but very slow growth of population and output per capita, whereas the rate of return on capital of course was not zero percent.

Now, apparently that's not going to last for very long, or at least the population growth is supposed to decline in the future, and the best projections we have is that the long-run growth is going to be closer to one to two percent rather than four to five percent.

So if you look at this, these are the best estimates we have of world GDP growth and rate of return on capital, average rates of return on capital, so you can see that during most of the history of mankind, the growth rate was very small, much lower than the rate of return, and then during the 20th century, it is really the population growth, very high in the postwar period, and the reconstruction process that brought growth to a smaller gap with the rate of return.

Here I use the United Nations population projections, so of course they are uncertain.

Over 85,000 students are enrolled in schools here, which makes up 40 percent of the refugee population.

If there was a country made up of only international migrants, that would be larger, in population, than Brazil.

So in Nepal, the share of poor people was 42 percent in 1995, the share of poor people in the population.

Fifty-four percent of the world's population lives in our cities.

In developing countries, one third of that population is living in slums.

Right here, in my city of Rio, in spite of mandatory voting, almost 30 percent of the voting population chose to either annul their votes or stay home and pay a fine in the last mayoral elections.

The United States population has suffered from a general decrease in happiness for the past three decades, and the main reason is this.

And that day, they joined the biggest population of refugees in the world, in a country, Lebanon, that is tiny.

It would be as if the entire population of Germany, 80 million people, would flee to the United States in just three years.

Half of the entire population of Syria is now uprooted, most of them inside the country.

We should think of refugee camps and communities as more than just temporary population centers where people languish waiting for the war to end.

Africa today has the fastest growing population in the world, but also is the poorest.

Latin America has nine percent of the world's population, but 25 percent of its global violent deaths.

And if you look at the human cost of this war over 50 years, we have had more than 5.7 million displaced population.

Now, I come from the developing world where we are forever being challenged with this issue of population explosion.

Africa is the continent which is getting younger, and whenever one talks about population explosion, one talks about the issue of food security as being the other side of the same coin.

This is exactly what's being discussed in Japan nowadays, and if you have a disciplined population like the Japanese, this may work, but we know that in Chile, this land is going to be occupied illegally anyhow, so this alternative was unrealistic and undesirable.

Now I'm an activist, a human rights activist, and what drives me is my shame at living in an otherwise great nation that has less than five percent of the world's population but almost 25 percent of the world's incarcerated population.

And with more and more of the world's population living on this part of the curve, it means GDP is becoming less and less useful as a guide to our development.

In some fragile cities, 75 percent of the population is under the age of 30.

Still today, with all the technology we have, less than half of the world's population has access to the Internet, and more than three billion people — I'm repeating the number — three billion people are consuming news that is censored by those in power.

In red, you can see the potential working-age population, so people over 15 and under 65, and I'm actually only interested in this red area.

The red area, so the potential working-age population in 2030, is already set in stone today, except for much higher migration rates.

And get this, almost 20 percent of the Norwegian population tuned in, 20 percent.

Catadores provide a heavy, honest and essential work that benefits the entire population.

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