According to the UN, an area of fertile soil the size of Ukraine is lost every year because of drought, deforestation and climate change.

According to a UN report in 2007, Afghanistan has received over $ 3. 3 billion from its expatriate community in 2006.

According to Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on food, there was a rush by institutions to enter the food market following George W Bush's Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000.

According to the Swedish Public Radio broadcaster SR, the UN did not explain why it had elected to remove Al-Barakat from its terror list.

According to UN estimates, between 500, 000 and 1. 2 million children died during the years of the sanctions.

The UN does not define “ racism ”; however, it does define “ racial discrimination ”: According to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,

According to the UN Forum on Minority Issues, " The creation and development of classes and schools providing education in minority languages should not be considered impermissible segregation, if the assignment to such classes and schools is of a voluntary nature ".

According to the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saudi foreign policy is focused on co-operation with the Gulf states, the unity of the Arab world, solidarity with Muslim countries, and support for the United Nations ( UN ).

According to the Helsinki Final Act of 1975, the UN, ICJ and international law experts, there is no contradiction between the principles of self-determination and territorial integrity, with the latter taking precedence.

According to the UN and the World Bank, it is a high income country with a very high human development index.

** Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the UN Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with Iraq than in disarming the country.

According to the UN Population Bureau, life expectancy in 2200 will be around 100 for developed countries and the world population will be about 22. 8 billion.

According to UN documents, in relation to the adoption and enforcement of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, the CSUCS plays " a key role in ensuring implementation at every level.

According to a UN climate report, the Himalayan glaciers that are the principal dry-season water sources of Asia's biggest rivers-Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra, Yangtze, Mekong, Salween and Yellow-could disappear by 2035 as temperatures rise and human demand rises.

According to the UN State of the World Population 2007 report, sometime in the middle of 2007, the majority of people worldwide will be living in towns or cities, for the first time in history ; this is referred to as the arrival of the " Urban Millennium " or the ' tipping point '.

According to the UN report, the Chechen separatist forces included a large number of children, some as young as 11 and both male and female, during the First Chechen War: " Child soldiers in Chechnya were reportedly assigned the same tasks as adult combatants, and served on the front lines soon after joining the armed forces.

According to the Mixed Armistice Commission report, approved on the afternoon immediately following the operation, and delivered by Major General Vagn Bennike to the UN Security Council, the raid at Qibya took place on the evening of October 14, 1953 at around 9. 30 pm, and was taken by roughly half a battalion strength of soldiers from the Israeli regular army.

According to the report of the Paul Volcker Committee, between April and December 2004, Kofi Annan ’ s then Chef de Cabinet Iqbal Riza authorized thousands of UN documents shredded including the entire chronological files of the Oil-for-Food Programme between the years 1997-1999.

According to his statement to the UN Security Council,

According to a UN declaration that resulted from the World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen in 1995, absolute poverty is " a condition characterised by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information.

According to his autobiography, then-United Nations Ambassador Bill Richardson was asked by the White House in 1997 to interview Lewinsky for a job on his staff at the UN.

According to Britain, a majority of the UN Security Council members supported its proposed 18th resolution which gave Iraq a deadline to comply with previous resolutions, until France announced that they would veto any new resolution that gave Iraq a deadline.

According to a UN Demographic survey, Japan is expected to have 272, 000 centenarians by 2050.

* According to UNSCOM, Iraqi nuclear scientists are ordered to hide nuclear weapons from UN inspectors, collect and hide computer data, and formulate a " legal " justification for the existence of Iraqi nuclear labs.

* According to UNSCOM, the unity of the UN Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, are starting to become increasingly interested in the financial opportunities of a post-sanctions Iraq.

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

According to official Armenian statistics, it rose by 11 percent to $ 91. 6 million in January – November 2010.

According to the objectivist view, the rules of Bayesian statistics can be justified by requirements of rationality and consistency and interpreted as an extension of logic.

According to the Australian government's June 2006 publication of prison statistics, Aborigines make up 24 % of the overall prison population in Australia.

According to World Bank statistics, the services sector is one of the few sectors of Haiti's economy that sustained steady, if modest, growth throughout the 1990s.

According to The Daily Telegraph, " statistics show that more than 60 percent of Hungarian mortgages and car loans are denominated in foreign currencies ".

According to the EU's statistics body Eurostat, Italian public debt stood at 116 % of GDP in 2010, ranking as the second biggest debt ratio after Greece ( with 126. 8 %).

According to the Bologna statistics of the European Union, Italian is spoken as a mother tongue by 65 million people in the EU ( 13 % of the EU population ), mainly in Italy, and as a second language by 14 million ( 3 %).

According to the American federal government statistics compiled by Mark Zandi, currently of " Moody's Economy. com ", back in 1985, the average inheritance was $ 39, 000.

According to statistics collected in 2009, there are 35, 684 song rooms in Korea with an average of 1. 9 million people participating each day.

According to statistics obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the average commuter on the Metropolitan line in 2006 wasted three days, 10 hours and 25 minutes due to delays.

According to MPT's official statistics as of July 2010, the country had over 400, 000 Internet users ( 0. 8 % of the population ) with the vast majority of the users located in the two largest cities, Yangon and Mandalay.

According to a personal statistics file displayed on a computer screen in the series, Edison is 6 ' 2 ", weighing 180 pounds.

According to the United States scholar Nicholas Eberstadt and demographer Judith Banister, vital statistics and personal information on residents are kept by agencies on the ri, or ni (,: village, the local administrative unit ) level in rural areas and the dong (,: district or block ) level in urban areas.

According to the CIA world factbook, as of 2009, the following statistics are available on Palestinian Christians.

According to statistics by the Ministry of Interior.

According to government statistics, the population of Seoul, one of the world's largest cities, surpassed 10 million people in late 1988.

According to latest 2010 statistics, Singapore ’ s resident total fertility rate ( TFR ) reached a level of 1. 1 in 2010.

According to the OECD / World Bank population statistics in Turkey the population growth from 1990 to 2008 was 16 million and 29 %.

According to the figures released by Turkey's statistics authority ( TurkStat ) the total number of motor vehicles in Turkey reached 15. 023 million as of November 2010.

According to statistics from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), the chlorination of drinking water has led to dramatic decreases in the transmission of typhoid fever in the U. S. A.

According to the editor of Ballot Access News, which periodically compiles and analyzes voter registration statistics as reported by state voter agencies ( only 29 states and DC tally voter registration by party ), it ranks third nationally among all U. S. political parties in registered voters, with 438, 222 registered voters as of October 2008.

According to official statistics, 501 personnel died or went missing in action during the Vietnam war and 2400 were wounded.

According to FBI statistics, New York's crime rate plummeted during his tenure.

According to FAO statistics, the total number of commercial fishermen and fish farmers is estimated to be 38 million.