One billion people speak English.

One billion people speak English.

The world s middle class will have swelled from one billion consumers to three billion.

Six billion will live in Asia, one billion in Africa, 1.5 billion in the Americas, and 500 million in Europe.

By 2100, one billion to three billion people worldwide are expected to suffer from water scarcity.

In addition, some one billion people in over one hundred countries are at risk.

The G 8, representing nearly one billion people, has promised to increase aid to Africa from 25 billion in 2004 to 50 billion in 2010 a difference that represents less than one tenth of one 1 of the income of the rich donor world!

This figure grew to about one billion dollars by 2002.

One model is the European Investment Bank, which, with 50 billion of capital, has been able to invest 400 billion.

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.

But it's basically you can pull one out of a billion.

By one estimate, approximately 50 billion bottles of water are consumed per year in the U.S. and around 200 billion bottles globally.

We said, take one idea, anything that bothers you, choose one week, and change a billion lives.

Today 1.2 billion people live on one United States dollar a day, with 3 billion more living on less than two dollars a day.

Because the owner said, There's one billion dollars of beryllium in that mountain.

Foreign direct investment totaled 27.3 billion in 2008 2009, despite the global financial crisis, and reached 1 billion in just one week in May 2009.

A multiplier of two would generate 480 billion of extra spending, compared to a multiplier of one, which would generate just the initial 240 billion.

CHAPEL HILL, NC Despite recent progress, more than one billion people still lack decent water supplies, and more than two billion go without sanitation services.

Only in the past two centuries, with the rise of modern economic life, did the world's population soar, from around one billion people in 1820 to 6.3 billion today and around 9 billion by 2050.

One billion children, we need 100 million mediators there are many more than that on the planet 10 million SOLEs, 180 billion dollars and 10 years.

By mid century, the number of people living in what will be (by then) high income economies will rise to 4.5 billion, from one billion today.

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.

For reference, fact one Exxon's revenues in 2005 were a billion dollars a day.

Just imagine, 1,000 people could ensure primary health care for one billion impoverished people.

There are an estimated 600,000 villages in this vast country of one billion citizens.

One or both of these agencies would then have an account with several billion dollars.

Feldstein calculates that the one time cost of principal reduction would be around 350 billion.

Ukraine s international reserves are a reassuring 26 billion, roughly one quarter of the country s GDP.

It is one of the fastest growing areas of the US 2 billion carotenoid market.

A large majority of the world's one billion persons living in unacceptable conditions are women.

Russia s foreign exchange reserves fell by 16 billion in one week, and Gazprom s value fell by the same amount in one day.

The move is reported to be one of the many cost cutting measures taken by Air India, which is facing debt of around Rs 550 billion (US 8.5 billion).

That means more than one billion trips for rural women and men to collect their money.

In fact, modern tools like maps and satellite navigation contribute to annual savings of up to 3.5 billion liters of gasoline and more than one billion hours of travel time.

Africa, with its population of one billion, is also gaining economic momentum, contributing further to the rapid expansion of the global middle class, which is expected to surge from 1.8 billion in 2010 to 3.2 billion in 2020 and to 4.9 billion people more than half of the world s population in 2030.

Would these three types of initiatives add up to 300 billion? No one knows at this stage.

One of my favorite facts is that U.S. agriculture uses 1.2 billion pounds of pesticides every year.

Nearly one billion people are trapped in chronic hunger perhaps 100 million more than two years ago.

The equation is straightforward 160 million for fortification programs could improve the health of one billion people.

For security and financial reasons, the Rp 3.5 billion (US 388,889) project was delayed for one year.

PRINCETON The task was never going to be an easy one impose losses worth about 5.8 billion ( 7.5 billion) on lenders to the Cypriot government and depositors with the country s banks.

PRINCETON The task was never going to be an easy one impose losses worth about 5.8 billion ( 7.5 billion) on lenders to the Cypriot government and depositors with the country s banks.

There are over one billion people that is, one in every six people around the world who live in extreme poverty, subsisting on less than one dollar per day.

For example, Chinese representatives disbursed almost 2.3 billion to acquire a 45 stake in one of Nigeria s offshore oil fields and promised to invest an additional 2.25 billion in develop the reserves.

Just to give you one example Angola alone is getting 50 billion dollars a year in oil revenue.