One billion people speak English.

One billion people speak English.

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

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.

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

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

At present, one billion people live on less than 1 per day and 831 million people are undernourished.

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.

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!

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.

There are over one billion people one in every six people around the world who live in extreme poverty, subsisting on less than 1 a day.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

On current trends smoking will kill about one billion people in the twenty first century, mostly in developing countries.

But China has 1.3 billion people.

There are now more than 3.3 billion subscribers in the world, roughly one for every two people on the planet.

One Billion Stories is a series of short films set in Shanghai about the people we pass by every day.

Of the 6.7 billion people on the planet, about 2 billion are food insecure.

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.

At least one billion very poor people, 20 of humanity, are daily denied basic rights to adequate food and clean water.

Until 1989, the global market encompassed between 800 million and one billion people. Today, it is three times larger, and growing.

This leaves rural areas, which have the potential to feed the more than one billion hungry people, cut off and isolated.

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

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.

But over 2 billion people one in three people on our planet have no access to modern energy to light and heat the dwellings in which they live.

Rice based production systems in 113 countries in five continents and their associated post harvest operations employ nearly one billion people worldwide.

Meanwhile, a billion people go hungry each day.

Cigarettes are smoked by over 1.1 billion people.

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.

Consider tuberculosis, which kills about 1.4 million people each year. Two billion people worldwide carry the bacterium that causes TB, one in ten of whom will develop the disease.

By mid century, we're going to have about eight billion perhaps more people living in cities or within a day's travel of one.

There are now seven billion people on the planet, compared to just three billion a half century ago.

VIENNA Of the world s almost seven billion people, about one billion are starving, owing to a long list of unfortunate local events and circumstances, together with steadily increasing demand, unpredictable weather patterns, and poor financial management.

The half billion people who depend on a healthy fishing industry, and the one billion who rely on fish as a primary source of protein, cannot wait another 20 years for the international community to act.

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.

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

There were 1.3 billion people living in China and Chinese children accounted for one fifth of the total number of children in the world.

Yet there are 2.8 billion people under the age of 25 out of a world population of six billion.

And the richest people over there there's one billion people and they live above what I call the air line, because they spend more than 80 a day on their consumption.

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.