According to an estimate by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ), 40 % of all Brazilian arms transfers from 1985 to 1989 went to Iraq.

According to the International Telecommunication Union, in 2004 there were only 479, 000 telephone subscribers in the country of nearly 11 million people, with. 061 main lines per 1000 inhabitants.

According to the International Reciprocal Trade Association, the industry trade body, more than 450, 000 businesses transacted $ 10 billion globally in 2008 – and officials expect trade volume to grow by 15 % in 2009.

According to a 2003 study undertaken by the International Diabetes Federation ( IDF ) on the access to and availability of insulin in its member countries, synthetic ' human ' insulin is considerably more expensive in most countries where both synthetic ' human ' and animal insulin are commercially available: e. g. within European countries the average price of synthetic ' human ' insulin was twice as high as the price of pork insulin.

* According to the letter of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, the correct name for this family should be Microcebidae, but the name Cheirogaleidae has been retained for stability.

According to a 1999 International Monetary Fund report, remittances from Dominican Americans, are estimated to be about $ 1. 5 billion per year.

According to the Bank for International Settlements, the total outstanding notional amount is US $ 708 trillion ( as of June 2011 ).

According to the Peterson Institute for International Economics and other proponents of demographic structural approach ( cliodynamics ), the basic problem Egypt has is unemployment driven by a demographic youth bulge: with the number of new people entering the job force at about 4 % a year, unemployment in Egypt is almost 10 times as high for college graduates as it is for people who have gone through elementary school, particularly educated urban youth, who are precisely those people that were seen out in the streets during 2011 Egyptian revolution.

According to the International Monetary Fund, commercial banks in Eritrea — all government owned and operated — appear to be in compliance with prudent regulations.

According to the International Monetary Fund, the overall fiscal deficit in 2003 was 17 percent of gross domestic product ( GDP ).

According to the International Monetary Fund, in 2003 foreign reserves were just US $ 17. 2 million, sufficient to cover only two weeks of imports.

According to the International Monetary Fund, the Afghan economy grew 20 % in the fiscal year ending in March 2004, after expanding 30 % in the previous 12 months.

According the International Water Management Institute and UNEP, well-managed agroecosystems not only provide food, fibre and animal products, they also provide services such as flood mitigation, groundwater recharge, erosion control and habitats for plants, birds fish and other animals.

According to the International Franchise Association approximately 4 % of all businesses in the United States are franchisee-worked.

According to Vermont he found misconduct, and continued to find it, from Amsterdam to the International office.

According to a report by the International Organization of Securities Commissions, the most common tactic is the direct regulation of financial advisers — including hedge fund managers, which is primarily intended to protect investors against fraud.

According to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the CIA World Factbook, in 2011 Italy was the eighth-largest economy in the world, the fourth-largest in Europe and the third-largest in the Eurozone in terms of nominal GDP, and the tenth-largest economy in the world and fifth-largest in Europe in terms of purchasing power parity ( PPP ) GDP.

According to this viewpoint, International English is a concept of English that minimises the aspects defined by either the colonial imperialism of Victorian Britain or the so-called " cultural imperialism " of the 20th century United States.

According to the International Lesbian and Gay Association ( ILGA ) seven countries still retain capital punishment for homosexual behavior: Afghanistan, Iran, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Yemen.

The economy of Japan is the third largest national economy in the world after the United States and the People's Republic of China and is the world's second largest developed economy According to the International Monetary Fund, the country's per capita GDP ( PPP ) was at $ 34, 739 or the 25th highest in 2011.

According to the all-time ranking published in 2009 by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an organization recognised by FIFA, based on clubs ' performance in international competitions, Juventus were Italy's best club and second in Europe of the 20th century.

According to Transparency International, the government of Afghanistan is the third most-corrupt in the world.

According to Amnesty International, the aftermath of the war resulted in an increase in the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation.

According to the Military Balance published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the force was organized into one armored, one infantry, and one paratroop / commando brigade.

According to the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, indirect comparison indicates that side-effects from benzodiazepines may be about twice as frequent as from nonbenzodiazepines.

According to its website, the US National Security Agency ( NSA ) is " a high technology organization ... on the frontiers of communications and data processing ".

According to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, " China has been working with great determination in recent years to develop, implement, and enforce a solid environmental law framework.

According to the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry, a small amount of ingested lead ( 1 %) will store itself in bones, and the rest will be excreted by an adult through urine and feces within a few weeks of exposure.

According to the WWF and Digital Map of European Ecological Regions by the European Environment Agency, Macedonia's territory can be subdivided into four ecoregions: the Pindus Mountains mixed forests, Balkan mixed forests, Rhodopes mixed forests and Aegean sclerophyllous and mixed forests.

According to a 1998 report created by William Brankowitz, a deputy project manager in the U. S. Army Chemical Materials Agency, the Army created at least 26 chemical weapons dump sites in the ocean off at least 11 states on both the west and east coasts.

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency there are at least 100 research reactors in the world fueled by highly enriched ( weapons-grade / 90 % enrichment uranium ).

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, radon is the second most frequent cause of lung cancer, after cigarette smoking, causing 21, 000 lung cancer deaths per year in the United States.

According to a 2011 projection by the International Energy Agency, solar power generators may produce most of the world ’ s electricity within 50 years, dramatically reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases that harm the environment.

According to a separate U. S. Central Intelligence Agency study, “ the effect of an FAE explosion within confined spaces is immense.

According to Central Bank of Venezuela, the government received from 1998 to 2008 around 325 billion USD through oil production and export, and according to the International Energy Agency, to June 2010 has production of 2. 2 million of barrels per day, 800, 000 of which go to the United States of America.

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, there were almost 96, 000 African refugees in Yemen in 2006, including more than 91, 000 Somalis.

According to an internal memo from Philip Morris referring to the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ), " the credibility of the EPA is defeatable, but not on the basis of ETS ( environmental tobacco smoke ) alone.

According to a white paper authored by Intel and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, PCs with internal power supplies will require the use of active power factor correction to meet the ENERGY STAR 5. 0 Program Requirements for Computers.

According to Homeland security research, the U. S. federal Homeland Security and Homeland Defense includes 187 federal agencies and departments, including the United States National Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the United States Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the United States Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the 14 agencies that constitute the U. S. intelligence community and Civil Air Patrol.

According to a 2006 speech by Mitsuhiro Suganuma, a former officer of the Public Security Intelligence Agency, around 60 percent of yakuza members come from burakumin, the descendants of a feudal outcast class and approximately 30 percent of them are Japanese-born Koreans, and only 10 per cent are from non-burakumin Japanese and Chinese ethnic groups.

According to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ), PCBs have been shown to cause cancer in animals, and there is also evidence that they can cause cancer in humans.

According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ( ATSDR ), approximately 99 percent of the PCBs used by U. S. industry were produced by the Monsanto Chemical Company.

According to former CIA Director Richard M. Helms: " The code names for most Agency operations are picked in sequence from a sterile list, with care taken not to use any word that might give a clue to the activity it covers.

According to Peter Andreas, a border theorist, the creation of DHS constituted the most significant government reorganization since the Cold War, and the most substantial reorganization of federal agencies since the National Security Act of 1947, which placed the different military departments under a secretary of defense and created the National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency.

According to the Central Intelligence Agency, 84 % of Rwandans and 85 % of Burundians are Hutu, with Tutsis the next largest ethnic group at 15 % and 14 % of residents in Rwanda and Burundi, respectively.

According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ( ATSDR ), approximately 99 percent of the PCBs in the United States were produced by the Monsanto Chemical Company.

According to Britain's Food Standards Agency, the Indian food industry in the United Kingdom is worth £ 3. 2 billion, accounts for two-thirds of all eating out, and serves about 2. 5 million British customers every week.

According to several sources, Salameh served as a secret contact between the Palestine Liberation Organisation ( PLO ) and the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) from 1970 until his death, guaranteeing not to assassinate US citizens in exchange for financial and political support.