One billion people speak English.

Cigarettes are smoked by over 1.1 billion people.

Globally, 1.3 billion people still lack access to electricity, and 2.7 billion people, mostly women, rely on wood, charcoal, and dung for cooking.

It's collective punishment, and collective bullying of 1.6 billion people who subscribe to the Islamic faith.

It is a source of Green fuel used by more than two billion people.

But this is just one, two, three billion people, and obviously there are seven billion people in the world, so there must be one, two, three, four billion people more who live in between the poverty and the air line.

I have absolutely no idea how to do that, and I have yet to read any article by anyone who did.

There are now 4.6 billion mobile subscribers, and the numbers are soaring.

The World Health Organization estimates that about 100 million people died from smoking in the twentieth century, but smoking will kill up to one billion people in the twenty first century.

Already, a billion people have had some kind of brain disorder that incapacitates them, and the numbers don't do it justice though.

As of 2000, nearly one billion people or 26 of the adult population of the world had hypertension.

In 2003 alone, 700 natural hazards resulted in 75,000 deaths and economic losses of more than 65 billion.

Do you know, of the 1.3 billion Chinese, over 90 percent of them think they belong to the same race, the Han?

With more than a billion people now traveling by air every year, and with a total of 2.2 billion flights sold, extending the air tax approach to a voluntary contributions model would vastly multiply the program s benefits.

According to Forbes magazine , he is the second wealthiest person in the world, after Bill Gates, with assets of 42 billion.

There s a little something for everyone, including a stunning 15 billion in loan waivers for small farmers.

It already affects every continent and around 2.8 billion people around the world at least one month out of every year.

With global aid totaling roughly 130 billon, each of the 1.3 billion people living in extreme poverty (less than 1 per day) worldwide would receive 100 in cash.

By 2030, the global workforce of 3.5 billion will include an estimated one billion workers who lack a secondary education, significantly hindering their countries economic prospects.

Well, the thesis of The Bottom Billion is that a billion people have been stuck living in economies that have been stagnant for 40 years, and hence diverging from the rest of mankind.

Robert Neuwirth, author of Shadow Cities, finds the world s squatter sites where a billion people now make their homes to be thriving centers of ingenuity and innovation. He takes us on a tour.

I've done the scrutiny of market data, and I've found that, indeed, the washing machine has penetrated below the air line, and today there's an additional one billion people out there who live above the wash line.

When people talk about the need to increase global food production to feed those nine billion people that are expected on the planet by 2050, I always think of these graphs.

And computation, storage and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.

They have over a billion people in this country, but they have 35,000 local doctors who report paralysis, and clinicians, a huge reporting system in chemists.

On the same evening, another billion will participate in the environmental event Earth Hour by turning off their lights from 8 30 9 30.

The 2006 and 2007 flooding in Johor has resulted in loss of RM1.5 billion and 18 lives in addition to the temporary displacement of 110,000 people.

As a rough calculation, assume 10,000 in annual per capita health care costs, or 1 billion per year in a community of 100,000.

These fires are a method of cooking and heating for nearly 3 billion people with their health effects being greater among women due to more exposure.

Education Project 1998 2.16 billion 2001 6.63 billion.

Health and nutrition 1998 7.20 billion 2001 3.80 billion.

Around the world right now, one billion people are trapped in poor or failing countries. How can we help them? Economist Paul Collier lays out a bold, compassionate plan for closing the gap between rich and poor.

The US Federal Reserve increased its stock of base money in 2008 by 97 , the European Central Bank by 37 .

An estimated 1.4 billion people were still living in extreme poverty in 2005, and the number is likely to be higher today, owing to the global economic crisis.

But, even among its opponents, its value for poorer countries came to be recognized, as it helped to lift more than a billion people in Asia out of abject poverty.

Nine million children die each year before reaching their fifth birthday 69 million school age children are not in school 884 million people have no access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion lack access to basic sanitation.

13.8 billion light years The age of the universe is estimated to be 13.8 billion years.

China has pulled more than 680 million people out of poverty in the last three decades, leading a worldwide poverty decline of almost a billion people.

As the momentum picks up year after year, the WHL is confident that almost all the estimated 1.5 billion people affected by elevated blood pressure can be reached.

Another 10 15 billion in annual aid (that is, roughly 10 15 more per person in the high income world), bringing total aid to around 40 billion per year, would enable still greater progress to be made in the coming years.

Moreover, poor households have reduced food consumption, with the UN Food and Agricultural Organization estimating that nearly one billion people are hungry and malnourished.

Indeed, the second ranked country in terms of total annual military spending, the United Kingdom, lags far behind, at 55 billion, followed by France ( 45 billion), Japan ( 41 billion), and Germany ( 35 billion).

In the developing world, 20 billion could finance 48,000 kilometers of two lane paved roads, or provide treatment for 120 million people with HIV AIDS for a full year.

In 2009, the annual healthcare related expenditures reached 20.6 billion kuna (2.75 billion euro).

With one billion people living in high income countries, total aid in 2010 amounted to around 27 per person in the donor countries a modest sum for them, but a life saving one for the world s poorest people.