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The American sinologist David Shambaugh, for example, estimates that the country spends roughly $10 billion a year in “external propaganda.”
As the world’s largest polluter, accounting for roughly a quarter of global carbon emissions, America’s reluctance to do more is perhaps understandable, if not forgivable.
At the time of independence from Britain, India’s illiteracy rate stood at 80-85%, roughly the same as Indonesia’s illiteracy rate at the time of independence from the Netherlands.
To put that figure in perspective, the US Pentagon budget is roughly $2 billion per day.
With around 420 million African kids of school age, total aid amounted to roughly $3 per child per year.
With Africa’s school-age population accounting for roughly one-third of the total, the per capita financing requirement is about $100.
Annual spending per school-aged child in Sub-Saharan Africa is roughly one-third of the minimum needed.
Roughly 50 million US residents (one in six) pay out-of-pocket for medical expenses.
On average, wealthier countries spend roughly 11% of their GDP on health, with more than 80% publicly financed and only 14% of spending taking place on a fee-for-service basis.
In the early 1980’s, market reforms left roughly 100 million rural citizens without insurance, almost overnight.
The destruction of the Chinese satellite produced roughly 300,000 pieces of debris, causing severe pollution and putting many other spacecraft in the Earth’s orbit in grave danger.
A steady stream of economic data suggests that the annual rate has now accelerated to 2.5%, roughly splitting the difference between Trump and the experts.
That leaves roughly 30 countries that still apply it.
Services were the first to recover after the 2008 financial crisis; and, as of late 2017, the UK’s services exports were roughly double its services imports.
One casualty of that brutal enterprise, apart from the roughly 100,000 Iraqis who have died and the millions more who have become refugees, is trust in the US as a force for good.
America's military budget is currently about $450 billion, roughly equal to the rest of the world's combined military spending.
By 2050, India will conceivably have an economy the size of America's, with four times the population and roughly one-fourth of the average income level per person;A narrower economic gap will reduce America's relative geopolitical power.
To take just one example, the United States’ federal government accounts for just 537 of the country’s roughly 500,000 elected positions.
While there are huge problems that must still be overcome, there is also a clear sense on the ground that the economy has passed a turning point, roughly at the start of this year.
The amounts held in reserves are huge - roughly $1.6 trillion worldwide.
United Nations data show that India’s stock of foreign direct investment (FDI) was equivalent to just 11.8% of its GDP from 2010 to 2012 – far lower than the developing-economy average of roughly 30%.
Our smiles help us to connect with others, ensuring that we pull roughly in the same direction.
As the figure shows, these targets are roughly in line with what has historically been considered their fair share, though each could do slightly more.
According to the Iranian Council of Trade, Mining, and Agriculture, the value of imported goods totaled more than $56 billion in 2010, meaning that roughly 70% of total oil revenue was spent on imports.
As we know, this is far from assured in Europe; nor is it evident in the United States and Japan – that is, countries that account for roughly 45% of Chinese exports.
According to a recent report by the UN Development Program, roughly half of those between 15 and 30 years old dream of emigrating to Europe, North America, or Australia.
The International Accounting Standards Board does roughly what you might expect, though the Americans, while members, do not in fact use its standards – which are now confusingly called International Financial Reporting Standards.
In fact, it is equivalent to roughly 1% of annual global GDP, 18 months of US military spending, or one-twentieth of US national debt.
This maturation could not have come at a more opportune time; roughly two-thirds of Africans depend on agriculture to make ends meet.
Once one understands that EU membership costs each British citizen roughly £1 ($1.51) weekly, the argument that it is an untenable burden for the UK falls apart.
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