Despite a fairly effective family planning program that has been in place since the 1960s, the population is expected to grow to around 264 million by 2020 and 308 million by 2050, falling to sixth behind Pakistan and Brazil sometime before 2050.

Despite his new record deal, he had a falling out with The Beast Crew when he signed over fellow member Champtown ( the two have become friends again since ).

Despite setbacks, such as Lucy falling to the bottom of the loch, about 600 sightings were reported in the places they conducted the hoaxes.

Despite a falling out between the organisers ( see controversy below ) a successful event was held in Alexandra Palace the next year in 2000.

Despite some tired runners falling at the 30th and appearing injured, no horse deaths have occurred at the 30th fence to date.

Despite falling for two consecutive weeks and leaving the charts, the song re-entered at number 22, its peak position, on April 26, 2003.

Despite falling outside of city limits, and having a post office explicitly named " Warrington ," mail going to the addresses in the Warrington ZIP code ( 32507 ) fall under the jurisdiction of Pensacola.

Despite this however, western-style pop music lost popularity to arabesque in the late 70s and 80s, with even its greatest proponents Ajda Pekkan and Sezen Aksu falling in status.

Despite falling ill from the apples he finished in fourth place.

Despite this success, Rose left the group to resume his solo career after falling out with Simpson, and was easily replaced by Junior Reid.

Despite his contempt for women, Octave finds himself slowly falling in love with Denise, whose inability to be seduced by his charms further inflames him.

Despite the lack of resources, a number of young talented players were found to play for the club ; crucially, when many of these moved on, including Stephen Pearson and James McFadden, they brought revenue in the form of transfer fees, and with John Boyle waiving the club's personal debt to him, its financial future was assured by the conclusion of the 2004 – 05 season with the club's yearly losses falling to one of the lowest figures in the Premier League and the club coming out of administration in time to avoid a ten-point Premier League penalty which was being phased in for teams in administration.

Despite falling out of favour with Saddam

Despite achieving its objectives, the attack on the Custom House was a setback for the IRA as a large number of Volunteers were captured either during the attack or when falling back.

Despite these new developments and storylines, the programme's viewing figures were falling.

Despite their remarkable progress and general prosperity, 19th-century U. S. farmers experienced recurring cycles of hardship, caused primarily by falling world prices for cotton and wheat.

Despite falling behind the WWF and NWA as a major promotion throughout 1986 and 1987, Gagne still managed to find and / or develop legitimate young talent like Scott Hall, The Midnight Rockers ( Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty ), " Bull Power " Leon White ( later known as Big Van Vader ), The Nasty Boys ( Brian Knobs and Jerry Sags ), and Madusa Miceli during that timeframe.

Despite falling twice, he quickly stood up and finished his skate, the trademark black cap he wore back in his playing days held in his hand.

Despite falling popularity, Kan rejected calls to step down while the country continued to suffer from the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crises of spring 2011.

Despite falling popularity towards the end of production which saw the Ford Sierra outsell it, a total of 807, 624 MK2 Cavaliers were sold in Britain during its seven-year production run.

Despite ND's falling performance in the Greek legislative election, 2007, the PA. SO. K.

Despite falling 72-56, Bishop's fancy feet helped set a bold new record.

Despite an impressive beginning, with 3, 600 turning out for the first home game against the London Racers, crowds would not be consistent and it soon became apparent that ice hockey at the busiest indoor venue in Europe would no longer be viable with the season's average attendance being just 2, 150 per game, falling far short of the rumoured number of 3, 000 needed to cover costs.

" Despite their later falling out that would result in a change from Sedaka's record label from Elton's Rocket Records to Elektra, Elton has been credited by Sedaka as being responsible for his breakthrough back into the U. S. pop music scene.

Despite his international arrest warrant, Omar al-Bashir was re-elected in the 2010 Sudanese presidential election, the first democratic election with multiple political parties participating in nine years .< ref >

Despite their massive turnaround, the Spurs would not catch the Mavs who won the Southwest Division by nine games.

Despite a defence campaign backed by the likes of George Orwell, Michael Tippett, T. S. Eliot, and Benjamin Britten, Vernon, Sansom and Hewetson were convicted and served nine months in jail.

Despite achieving a Scottish record of nine points in the group stage, Celtic failed to qualify for the latter stages and parachuted into the UEFA Cup.

Despite a 2-5 start, the football club rallied together to reel off nine wins in 10 games to finish in first place with a 11 – 7 regular season record.

Despite its vastness and abundance of water, this thermal system is little utilized ; of the nine groups of thermal springs there are only adequate installations in four of them: Chaves, Carvalhelhos, Vidago, Pedras Salgadas, and Verín.

Despite flankers, he had gone only a mile when his advance guard was ambushed with six dead and nine wounded.

Despite playing in only nine games as a senior because of a stress fracture in his right foot, Chambers put together the most productive season of his career with 52 receptions for 813 yards and five touchdowns.

Despite winning five of their last nine games since Andy Scott's dismissal, Rotherham still finished 5 points outside the play offs.

Despite losing an integral member of the band the Roosters pressed on and released their seventh album Neon Boy less than nine months after Ohe's departure.

Despite his active schedule, Hammer took the stage with Jeff Beck in December 1983 for the nine U. S. benefit concerts that raised money for Ronnie Lane's A. R. M. S.

Despite not finding a regular position yet, he was first selected to the All-Star team in 1957, the first of nine consecutive years through 1965 in which he made the squad ; he would appear in six of the games ( 1960 to 1964 ), including both 1961 contests.

Despite a budget of $ 34 million, it only grossed a total of $ 23. 6 million in North America and negligible foreign box office receipts, for a total of only $ 23. 8 million worldwide before leaving theaters after nine weeks.

Despite the unpleasantness, Shane and Guard reconciled to a large degree ( even to the point of planning a possible reunion tour ) prior to Guard's death at age 56 from lymphoma nine years later in March 1991.

Despite this, he still ended up being the top scorer of the whole competition with nine goals in 12 games.

Despite his advantage in numbers, Werlé had formed his nine battalions into three columns of regiments, and could not bring as many muskets to bear as the Allies.

Despite his troubled term as territorial governor of Kansas, Shannon served the longest continuous term of any Kansas territorial governor, more than nine and one-half months of an eleven-month term.

Despite the Nationalist Party's disavowal of any participation in the attack, several Nationalists were arrested, and nine were accused of " murder and conspiracy to incite violence.

Despite all the injuries Anderson missed only nine games in those four years.

Despite a successful start to the 2005 – 06 season, Man City finished 15th in the Premiership due to losing nine of the last ten games.

Despite being heavily outnumbered, Chu forces scored a great victory after nine engagements, defeating the 300, 000 strong Qin army.

Despite a large cash injection made by Israeli businessman Arcadi Gaydamak ($ 400, 000 ) in the hope of promoting peace and harmony among the citizens of Israel, and a return to their rebuilt home stadium ( largely financed by the Emir of Qatar, hence the renaming to Doha Stadium ), Sakhnin were relegated at the end of 2005-06 season, finishing nine points from safety.

Walter Spies with Angelica Archipenko circa 1930After living for nine years at the confluence of two rivers in Campuan ( Ubud ), Spies grew weary of his increasingly hectic social life, and retired to the tranquil mountain retreat that was to become the setting of some of his most beautiful and atmospheric paintings, including " Iseh im Morgenlicht 1938 " Despite his desire to escape from a constant stream of visitors, Spies still used to receive guests at Iseh, including the musician Colin McPhee and his wife, anthropologist Jane Belo, the Swiss artist Theo Meier and the Austrian novelist Vicki Baum.

Despite raising the second largest amount of money of the nine candidates seeking the office, she ultimately finished fifth in the August 2009 primary election and failed to advance to the November general election.