But counting the world's third largest population -- about three hundred nine million by current estimates -- is no easy job.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

The World Health Organization says alcohol abuse is the third leading cause of death and disability in the world.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

"By two thousand and twenty, C.O.P.D.will likely be the third leading cause of death across the world."

VOA: special.2009.06.23

Factory labor built China into the world's third largest economy, after the United States and Japan.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

At its worst, the crisis affected nearly a third of world air travel.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

The journal editors say, "If internal and international migrants comprised a nation, it would be the third most populous country in the world,just after China and India."

VOA: special.2011.07.06

This is the third year that World Malaria Day has been observed.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Portugal is ranked third in the world.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

IFAD estimates 500 million smallholder farms worldwide are supporting two billion people -- one third of the world's population.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

It is the third-largest economy in the world, behind the United States and Japan.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

The WHO reports that about a third of the world's live in India.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

"America itself is consuming one third of the world's resources on its own,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

Hundreds of thousands of passengers around the world remain stranded for a third day as European flights were slashed Saturday down to one-quarter of their normal number.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

The region has the third largest barrier reef in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Japan and China are the world's second and third largest economies.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

He agrees with Fisher that the tradition of non profits in developed countries giving tools and equipment to poor people in third world countries -- is a poor model.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Born to Puerto Rican parents, who moved to New York during World War II, Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court and the third woman.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

Ghana's Under-20 national team wrapped up a fantastic three-week performance by edging Brazil on penalty kicks,4-3, to win their first title in their third appearance in the final of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

And they think, cause there was a study once, which said that all included tourism is the best thing for a third world country, and so they said,well, that is what they want, and they want to have a water source, and they want to have golf,and a marina,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.04