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It's a perfect evocation of that great
population
survey, the six largest nations in the world in descending order: China, India, Facebook, the United States, Twitter and Indonesia.
But the problem with that is that we realized after a bunch of research that they are amazing at referring people to the nearest clinic or the public health care system, but what happens at the public health care system is this: these incredibly long lines and too many people who overload the system simply because there's not enough doctors and facilities for the
population
that's being referred.
62 percent of our
population
is below the age of 24.
That's the biggest
population
of Netizens, Internet users, in the whole world.
It's the entire
population
of the United States.
Last year, the world had 12 ongoing wars, 60 autocracies, 10 percent of the world
population
in extreme poverty and more than 10,000 nuclear weapons.
But 30 years ago, there were 23 wars, 85 autocracies, 37 percent of the world
population
in extreme poverty and more than 60,000 nuclear weapons.
200 years ago, 90 percent of the world's
population
subsisted in extreme poverty.
Today, more than 90 percent of the world's
population
under the age of 25 can read and write.
The first is the
population
that studied in a lecture-based classroom.
The second is a
population
of students that studied using a standard lecture-based classroom, but with a mastery-based approach, so the students couldn't move on to the next topic before demonstrating mastery of the previous one.
And finally, there was a
population
of students that were taught in a one-on-one instruction using a tutor.
The mastery-based
population
was a full standard deviation, or sigma, in achievement scores better than the standard lecture-based class, and the individual tutoring gives you 2 sigma improvement in performance.
The largest
population
in Africa is in Nigeria.
And this is so infuriating and humiliating for the
population
of Afghanistan, that it makes the recruitment for al-Qaeda very easy, when people are so disgusted by, for example, the burning of the Koran.
This process is identical to the way that a virus spreads through a
population.
And we know a lot about how viruses spread through a
population.
That's more people than the entire
population
here in sub-Saharan Africa.
In Malawi, for example, there are only two ear surgeons and 11 audiologists for a
population
of 17 million.
In addition, it's estimated that about two percent of the
population
will get a chronic wound at some point in their lifetime.
In January, 2010, a devastating 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, third deadliest earthquake of all time, left one million people, 10 percent of the population, homeless.
To give you a perspective, if I had to translate the proportion of psychiatrists in the
population
that one might see in Britain to India, one might expect roughly 150,000 psychiatrists in India.
Cities will account for 90 percent of the
population
growth, 80 percent of the global CO2, 75 percent of energy use, but at the same time it's where people want to be, increasingly.
In the U.K., that's more than 10 percent of the school
population.
The World Health Organization estimates that a quarter of Europe's
population
is having its sleep degraded by noise in cities.
If you include not just the food that ends up in shops and restaurants, but also the food that people feed to livestock, the maize, the soy, the wheat, that humans could eat but choose to fatten livestock instead to produce increasing amounts of meat and dairy products, what you find is that most rich countries have between three and four times the amount of food that their
population
needs to feed itself.
And so, Anuj and Acumen have been talking about testing the private sector, because the assumption that the aid establishment has made is that, look, in a country like Tanzania, 80 percent of the
population
makes less than two dollars a day.
This is the government's projection for the working-age
population
going forward.
We've doubled the
population
in 40 years, put half of them in cities, then connected them all up so they can interact.
In Ethiopia, 70 percent, that's 7-0 percent of the population, depends on rainfall for its livelihood.
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