"Some 1.6 billion people, about one quarter of the world?s population,
have no access to electricity today. Eighty percent of these people
live in rural areas of the developing world, mainly in South Asia and
sub-Saharan Africa where rapid urban migration and population growth
will occur over the next
several decades."
Source: IEA, "The Developing World and the Electricity Challenge,"
Jan. 2005, http://www.iea.org/Textbase/work/2005/poverty/blurb.pdf.
Of course, this is only an estimate. An undated Greenpeace document
puts the figure for people without access to electricity at "more than
2 billion."
Source: Greenpeace, "Solar Generation: electricity for over 1 billion
people and 2 million jobs by 2020,"
http://www.greenpeace.org/~climate/climatecountdown/solargeneration/solargenback.pdf.
Approximately 90% of the world's population has access to electricity. However, there are still around 770 million people globally who lack access to electricity.
According to IEA, around 1.6 Billion but according to Greenpeace its about 2.0 Billion people
Itis estimated that 1 billion
19.1% of the worlds population uses internet. According to a survey done by InternetWorldStats.According to the same website, using stats from 2008 it is 21.9 %its now 28.7% and going up.
The population of Canada is about 33 million persons (2010) and that of the United States is about 303 million (2010). So US population is about 918% of the population of Canada. Conversely the the population of Canada as a percentage of the United States population is just over 10%.
China makes up approximately 18.47% of the world's population.
Approximately 50% of the world's population lives on about 3% of the Earth's land area, most of which is concentrated in urban areas.
There is no specific percentage for the prevalence of depressive personality disorder in the world's population, as it is not a recognized psychiatric diagnosis. However, depressive symptoms are common in the general population, with estimates that around 1 in 5 people will experience a major depressive episode in their lifetime.
0.5%
About 11%.
62%
30 Present of the worlds population belongs to east Asia
4.5% (2011)
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Approximately 18% of the world's population lives in China, making it the most populous country in the world.
30 percent