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According to a 2010 McKinsey study, the two countries are expected to account for 62% of the growth in the continent’s urban population between 2005 and 2025, and a staggering 40% of such growth worldwide.
Ordinarily, a longer-term and bipartisan deal would be good news; but the deal was estimated to guarantee a staggering $1 trillion annual budget deficit.
In the European Union alone, the youth unemployment rate has reached a staggering 22%, and in some countries is topping out at roughly 50%; according to some reports, 75 million young people are currently experiencing unemployment, underemployment, or stagnating wages.
Since 2000, global onshore wind-power generation has averaged 27% annual growth, while the growth rate for solar photovoltaics has been a staggering 42%.
The level of Chinese FDI flowing into Africa at present is staggering.
By that measure, the global cost of premature deaths caused by outdoor air pollution would reach a staggering $18-25 trillion a year by 2060.
At the time, that target seemed achievable; during the previous 15 years, the number of undernourished people on the planet had been reduced by half, a staggering achievement attributed largely to international investment in agricultural and economic infrastructure.
With Europe staggering under the blows of investors intent on profiting from a catastrophe largely of their own making, it is time to reflect on the public purpose of global capital markets.
Yet the numbers are staggering: each month, some 40,000 Iraqis flee their homes because of the war.
Electricity generated by strictly green sources – water, wind, and solar – increased by 20%, with the most dramatic growth occurring in solar power generation, which rose a staggering 175%.
These issues represent a staggering waste of human and economic potential.
Its scale is staggering: more than $4 trillion of mergers and acquisitions this year, with tradable and (theoretically) liquid financial assets reaching perhaps $160 trillion by the end of this year, all in a world where annual global GDP is perhaps $50 trillion.
Afghanistan’s Unavoidable PartitionNEW DELHI – The United States, still mired in a protracted war in Afghanistan that has exacted a staggering cost in blood and treasure, will formally open peace talks with the Taliban, its main battlefield opponent, in the coming days (apparently despite last-minute opposition from Afghan President Hamid Karzai).
A staggering number of countries have simply refused to help resolve the numerous conflicts plaguing the world, particularly in the greater Middle East.
But the scale of excess is nonetheless staggering.
The costs are staggering: thousands of child deaths every day, and annual economic losses estimated at $260 billion – more than double the total amount of official development assistance.
Given these staggering sums, the US could face a double-dip, W-shaped recession.
And while players in England’s women’s super league earn an annual wage of up to £35,000, Chelsea’s male players are paid, on average, a staggering £4.5 million.
The global cost of containing violence or dealing with its consequences reached a staggering $9.5 trillion (11% of global GDP) in 2012.
Last year, China added a staggering 17 GW of wind-power capacity, and now produces half of the world’s wind and solar equipment, in part to meet its own highly ambitious clean-energy targets, which include deployment of 150 GW of wind power and 20 GW of solar power by 2020.
In 1999, Brazil, Russia, India, and China accounted for a mere 8% of vehicle sales worldwide; by 2012, their combined sales had reached a staggering 35% of the global total.
The staggering accumulation of crises and conflicts facing the world today – in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Gaza, and Libya – are linked to America’s new stance.
Industrial production, moreover, has plunged by a staggering 24%.
According to the “State of Global Air” report published by the Health Effects Institute, the absolute number of ozone-related deaths in India rose by a staggering 150% from 1990 to 2015.
Staggering changes have already occurred.
Affirmative Action for EuropeThe violence in France, fueled by staggering unemployment and ruthless policing, reflects the utter failure of the French model of social integration.
Hypertension affects a staggering one billion people worldwide, and is responsible for nearly ten million deaths annually – as many as all infectious diseases combined.
According to the World Health Organization, the number of deaths from the disease has fallen by a staggering 60% since 2000 – the result of improved access to diagnostic testing and treatment.
The effect has been staggering: aerospace manufacturing has almost disappeared from California, but is booming in Texas.
The evidence is visible in every aisle of every grocery store, where a staggering 74% of all food items are spiked with added sugar.
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