So, should we take today s BRICS more seriously than the BRICs of three years ago?

Christians now make up 5 of the population, down from 20 in the early 20th century.

Gerz wanted to contrast these with a list of the living .

Then the results obtained are compared with the expected results.

My delegation cannot resist drawing an analogy between today's important topic and Antarctica.

It was 80 higher in Japan back then than in Colombia today, 42 higher in old France than in current Tunisia, 250 higher in the old Netherlands than in current Turkey, and 470 higher in old Italy than in current Indonesia.

China s median age is today 34.5 years, compared to 36.9 years for the US.

The Panama Canal I visited is now a tiny little canal compared to what's being inaugurated today.

I'm glad you heard earlier today, batteries are unbelievably energy lack of density compared to fuel.

Indeed, Cuba s leaders today are far more likely to be white than they were in Batista s day.

There is another interesting parallel with the New Deal.

Even on the business cycle dimension, conditions have been far worse in the past than they are today.

China, too, is developing in ways that will be far easier to assess in retrospect than they are today.

Compared with other small cats, ocelot kittens grow quite slowly.

A comparison with the biennium 2000 2001 is shown in table 3.

They would still submit the Iranian program to greater restrictions than is the case today.

The increase was 33.02 in Africa, but only 1.17 in Europe.

Domestic public debt today stands at roughly 205 of GDP, compared to around 85 in 1995.

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But that requires substantially greater centralization of political accountability and control than Europeans seem able to achieve today.

The country has a high unemployment rate of 12.6 and has fairly low median income compared to European countries.

China already enjoys a smoother relationship with the South than it does with the North.

Botswana has a high level of economic freedom compared to other African countries.

CIMT was significantly higher in the myocardial infarction group compared to the other group.

As a result, the comparison and integration of agricultural statistics with other statistics was impaired.

It was an absurd thing to say, of course, in 1938, given the size of Europe s populations today. And it would be an equally ridiculous thing to say now, too.

New reactors being built today incorporate significantly enhanced safety features, both active and passive, compared to the Fukushima generation of reactors.

Carbon dioxide levels are higher today than they have been in at least 800,000 years.

The delegates of a state are equal to one other, in the Bundesrat, hence the minister president has no special rights compared to his ministers.

I'm going to play chess with Tom today.

Today s discussion focuses less on the danger that banks pose to their customers than on the risks they create for taxpayers.

Europe today is both larger and different compared to the Europe of 1999, when Turkey was invited to begin the accession process.

In the United States, just 100 years ago, women were roughly 100 times more likely to die in childbirth than they are today.

Any comparison of the Baltics with the Great Depression (or the United States today) is thus meaningless.

If that happens, Japanese conditions will most likely be worse at the end of Abe s term than they are today.

The Rial was trading at nearly 20,000 to the U.S. dollar on Saturday on the black market, compared to 18,000 Rials a day earlier.

And almost a quarter of Qatar s trade is with China, compared to just over 5 with the US.

Republican presidents have a better record in negotiating with enemies than do Democratic ones.

Polanski is a French citizen, and France is probably more indulgent towards its great artists than is the US.

Comparing children to normal rates of development may help to establish areas of significant difficulty.

Sami has a doctor's appointment today.

These poor farmers working the land by hand or with their animals, had yield levels that are comparable to the poorest farmers today in West Africa.

Russia s share of total EU gas imports is just above 40 today, compared to 80 in 1980.

Today, the language is associated with Irish nationalism (and thus with the Catholic community).

Take Nigeria again double B minus in the league of Ukraine and Turkey. Immediately we have a comparison.