Over the next 40 years the world will be adding some 3 billion people.
According to the World Tourism Organisation, there were about one billion international tourists in 2013 .
Since 2009, the billion-euro Herschel telescope has been unravelling the complexities of star birth and galaxy evolution.
Between live bouts, pay-per-view sales, video games and other products, the UFC is now a billion-dollar industry.
The Bank of England issues nearly a billion banknotes each year, and withdraws almost as many from circulation.
More growth awaits: 5% of the 1.1 billion handsets made or to be made this year include touchscreens.
Films that were expected to bring in upward of half a billion apiece failed to perform.
Panasonic just completed a 1 billion rupees investment in a new manufacturing plant in Haryana.
Petroleum imports grew by 5.7 million barrels per day (87 billion gallons per year).
Between January and August, figures Bentek, the gas offset will be roughly 300 billion cubic feet.
Six billion euros has been earmarked by the European Commission to target youth unemployment.
This year such projects will supply some 1.3 billion barrels, or 5% of global oil demand.
The Tengiz field in Kazakhstan holds 6 billion to 9 billion barrels of recoverable oil.
Now we have 933 billion of liabilities, 1, 137 billion of assets, and 204 billion of equity.
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They started with 340 billion of bonds, and ended with 306 billion euros of equity.
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DelBene notes that there are currently more than 1 billion Officer users around the world.
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Kazakhstan's 30 billion barrels of reserves make it the world's eleventh-largest repository of oil.
The capital requirement would rise to 15 percent for banks with over 500 billion in assets.
The cost of the clear-up is set to run into tens of billion of dollars.
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The winning lottery number is so long that there are 30 Billion possible combinations.
The gold mavens of the west have nothing on China, 1.3 billion strong.
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Wireless Intelligence estimates that the number of 3G users will reach 2.8 billion by 2014.
Half a billion get the disease every year and more than a million die of it.
By 2004, the number is likely to hit one billion, exceeding the number of wired phones.
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The Facebook IPO will deposit somewhere between six and 20 billion dollars into cash.
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Mr. Sikka said SAP served some 220 utilities globally, who reach about 2.5 billion customers.
Consumers spent more than 1.7 billion seconds (or around 28 million minutes) engaged with the ads.
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The three-hour opening ceremony had an estimated global television audience of one billion people.
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That game and that play were televised to one billion people around the globe.
Facebook has 1.1 billion users worldwide and remains the most popular social network among U.S. teens.
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