Last time I counted, I estimated that I know around 2500 Chinese characters.

The estimated number of HIV positive pregnant women is around 15,000, and the number of pregnant women with syphilis is about 60,000.

The outward stock of South South FDI, virtually nil at the end of the 1970s, was estimated at around 400 billion in 2002.

Decentralization of authority, responsibility, finances and accountability, in various forms, is occurring around the world.1 An estimated 60 countries are now undergoing decentralization processes.

In 2006, around 150 million migrants sent roughly 300 billion to their families in developing countries. The number of transactions is huge, estimated at 1.5 billion remittances annually.

Around the world, an estimated 171 million children from 5 to 17 years of age work, subject to hazardous conditions, excessive workloads, work intensity and excessive hours of work.

By the mid 1990s, it is estimated that around 20,000 tons of ozone depleting substances were being traded illegally each year, the equivalent of 20 per cent of legitimate trade.

Prospects for 2005 indicate a slowdown in GDP growth in the ESCAP region to an estimated 6.2 per cent as the external environment weakens, with inflation slowing slightly to an estimated 4.6 per cent, based on the assumption that the average price of oil will be around 38 dollars ( ) per barrel.

In addition, the physical capital loss is estimated to be around 3.5 billion, as a result of destruction of private and public infrastructure and capital stock and overuse of surviving physical capital.

By 2010, this number had declined to around 7.6 million still far too high, but definitely an historic improvement. Malaria deaths in children in Africa were cut from a peak of around one million in 2004 to around 700,000 by 2010, and, worldwide, deaths of pregnant women declined by almost half between 1990 and 2010, from an estimated 543,000 to 287,000.

China executes three times as many people every year as the rest of the world combined. Amnesty International has estimated that, in 2007, China secretly executed on average around 22 prisoners every day.

Nine of every ten recorded disasters are now climate related. As many as 50 million people around the world are estimated to be displaced each year by floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and landslides.

Estimated additional requirements

a Estimated figures.

About 10 million mortgages are estimated to be underwater (the house is worth less than the loan). And, in key markets around the US, four years into the housing slump, home prices continue to fall.

Signatures can then be estimated.

The Barrier's final route has created a zone between the 1949 United Nations Armistice line and the Barrier itself, which covers an estimated 578 sq. km, representing around 10 per cent of the West Bank, including Jerusalem.

These other emissions are estimated based on the estimated percentage of these emissions relative to total emissions at previous meetings.

UNESCO recently estimated the annual education financing gap of low and lower middle income countries to cover education up through lower secondary school to be around 22 billion. Ensuring the scale up of upper secondary school and ICT access might raise the needed annual sum to around 40 billion, with detailed cost estimates still to be made.

By 2014 an estimated 2.6 trillion in manufactured goods around the world (or 15 of total global output) will use this technology, building on the research of scientists in some 100 nations around the world. If current projections are right, nanotechnology has the potential to have an impact on nearly every industry and virtually every aspect of our lives.

Estimated resource requirements, 2005 and 2006

Estimated staffing requirements are as follows

a Estimated at the 2003 level.

(c) In addition to the estimated date of raising requisitions, consideration may be given to include the estimated time for delivery.

The current death toll is estimated at 500, and over 100,000 people are estimated to have been displaced and left homeless.

And around and around and around it goes.

Enthusiasm for America s self proclaimed mission to fight for freedom around the world was dented, not least in the US itself, by the bloody catastrophe of Vietnam. An estimated two million Vietnamese died in a war that did not free them.

And I put the rope around and around and around and around and around till I had no more rope.

Of total projected expenditures, salaries and benefits are estimated at 26.16 million and general and administrative expenditures are estimated at 12.05 million.

For example, CFC 11 has an estimated global warming potential of 4,680, CFC 12 has an estimated global warming potential of 10,720.

The budget deficit for 2004 stood at an estimated 295 million and the country's total outstanding external debt is estimated at 846 million.

In the budget for the 2004 05 fiscal year, expenditures were estimated at 18.561 million, while local revenue was estimated at 5.843 million.

Floods in Thailand last year threw 700,000 people out of work and had knock on economic effects around the world. The Economist reports that American bank JP Morgan has estimated that the disaster set back global industrial production by a surprisingly large 2.5 .

All of this Internet activity is but the tip of the iceberg of a new and growing global human tissue economy. Indeed, the World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that about 10 of organ transplants around the world stem from purely commercial transactions.

In Europe alone it is estimated that approximately 120,000 patients are receiving dialysis treatment and around 40,000 people are waiting for a kidney the waiting list for a transplant, currently about 3 years, is projected to increase to 10 years by 2010.

Estimated expenditure 293 million (regular resources 53 million.

a Representing estimated deployment by 31 October 2005.

a Represents estimated deployment by 31 October 2005.

a Represents estimated deployment by 30 June 2005.

b Represents estimated deployment by 31 October 2005.

What goes around comes around.

He went around once, he went around twice, he went around thrice.

Estimated income and adjustments to the support budget for 2006 2007 amount to 12.6 million, as compared to 14.6 million estimated income for 2004 2005.

Galaxies, 100 billion of them estimated in the universe.

The country's largest estimated cause of death is suicide.