In the last century, the world s population increased four fold, and the number of people living in cities thirteen fold.

The gaps between German bond yields and Italian and Greek yields are at record levels. The price of default insurance has tripled.

For example, we have quadrupled our trade volume just with our neighbors.

As incomes rise, categories reach a takeoff point where demand accelerates by 3 5 times.

Bilal told me there are others similar to him, one who is barely 12 and who has been shunned by his family for months.

Cronyism was rife and the murder rate tripled, partly owing to corruption in the police and the justice system.

Although the number of unemployed people remains at 20, the unemployment rate quadruples, to 40 .

But I also think that the phenomenal success of Swensen and others like him reflects the environment that Kiyosaki criticizes.

In Astrakhan, where the opposition candidate lost because of widespread voting fraud, the scale of street protests grew ten fold, and the entire country has been stirred by the scandal.

The rate of GDP growth more than tripled, averaging more than 9 per year from 2005 to 2007.

Gas production in the Middle East will triple, and more than double in Africa, where there are large low cost reserves.

The total demand for Family Planning Services (PF) in the urban areas is three times greater (24 ) than in rural areas (8 ).

Worldwide, adolescents and young women are more than three times more likely to be living with HIV AIDS than young men.

Majid Khan and there are many more like him is a classic product of the Bush administration s disregard for the fundamental principles of the rule of law.

Indeed, since 1970, the typical 70 year old s consumption appears to have tripled relative to that of the typical 30 year old.

As a result, in less than a decade, GDP has tripled, making Turkey the world s 16th largest economy.

Similarly, current use of contraceptives in urban areas is about five times higher than in the rural ones (15 against 3 ).

In some cases, with appropriate government action, they could double or even triple food production in just a few years.

Iraq is producing oil at levels below what it produced under Saddam Hussein, and has the potential to double or even triple output.

In fact, foreign direct investment in Africa has been on the rise since the early 2000 s, increasing fivefold in 2000 2010.

Global GDP, which currently stands at about 60 trillion, will at least triple in the next 30 years.

Kenya s bumpy road to democracy is no different from that of many other countries in Africa whose political transitions were heralded with high expectations.

In India, smoking triples the risk of death from tuberculosis in men and women and may even contribute to the spread of tuberculosis to others.

In the last century, the world got richer its population quadrupled the number of people living in cities grew thirteen fold and we consumed more of everything.

The Sensex in India rose by a factor of five in real terms over 2003 to 2007, and has since lost a third of its value.

According to the World Bank s annual assessment of Global Economic Prospects, India s economy could even triple in size in the next 15 to 20 years.

The Shanghai Composite in China rose by a factor of five in real terms from 2005 to 2007, and then lost two thirds of its real value.

If these people are richer than people today (and therefore using more energy per person), total emissions worldwide could double or even triple.

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

In the US, the Department of Transportation is prepared to go up to 5.8 million nearly four times as much, at current exchange rates for the same purpose.

For each chastised and born again Gekko as the Gekko in the new Wall Street is hundreds of meaner and greedier ones will be born.

The prime minister s Twitter account has more than tripled its following in the last nine months, to almost 660,000 (more than 50 higher than Nandy).

But I also think that the phenomenal success of Swensen and others like him reflects the environment that Kiyosaki criticizes. The problem is a defeatist attitude, not scholarship.

And, despite Turkey s fast growing population, per capita GDP has tripled since 2002, reaching 10,500 in 2010.

The growth of China and the developing world will lead to a doubling of global output in 10 15 years, and probably a tripling in the 15 years after that.

For carriers of the C C variant (which occurs in roughly 20 of the population), the risk of psychosis increased seven fold but only for the people who used cannabis every day.

Although we cannot expect a miraculous reincarnation of the criminal Mailat, we can and must ask for a radical review of the situation that marginalized people like him face.

A well capitalized World Bank leverages all its shareholders investments by pooling them and then raising five times the capital by borrowing in financial markets.

The ECHR has now cleared a path for the tens of thousands of other people in Russia who suffer abuse at the hands of the very mental health system that is supposed to help them.

Meanwhile, non P5 nuclear weapons states continue to expand their arsenals, with Pakistan and India estimated to have nearly tripled their stockpiles during the past decade.

Despite the eight fold increase in aid per head to the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1960 and 2007, real GDP per head decreased by two thirds in the same period.

The global economy will probably triple in size in the next quarter century, largely owing to growth in developing countries as they catch up to developed country incomes and adopt similar consumption patterns.

Compared to 1992, the number of women using hormonal contraceptives increased more than four fold whereas the number of users of the intrauterine spiral dropped the respective numbers are 3.9 and 20.9 The information only reflects the behaviour of women who visit gynaecologists.

Now that his status is up, Paul is living in the US unauthorized but he says it's impossible for him and others in his situation to return to Liberia. You cannot return because you don t even have the money to pay your air ticket, he says.

But Reinfeldt, like Jacques Chirac, has forgotten something. Liberal minded people may very well prefer not just to exchange one cynical prime minister for another at the next election.