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Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year. [2] Countries are sorted by nominal GDP estimates from financial and statistical institutions, which are calculated at market or government official exchange rates.
Certain onshore wind farms can reach capacity factors of over 60%, for example the 44 MW Eolo plant in Nicaragua had a net generation of 232.132 GWh in 2015, equivalent to a capacity factor of 60.2%, [7] while United States annual capacity factors from 2013 through 2016 range from 32.2% to 34.7%.
Counterbalancing the effect of the large endowments per student for private institutions, average tuition and fees at private four-year institutions were approximately two to four times the average tuition and fees of four-year public institutions in academic year 2021–22.
During the 1980s and 1990s, the national median home price ranged from 2.9 to 3.1 times median household income. By contrast, this ratio increased to 4.0 in 2004, and 4.6 in 2006. [ 293 ] This housing bubble resulted in many homeowners refinancing their homes at lower interest rates, or financing consumer spending by taking out second mortgages ...
The 2023 report states that two billion people (26% of the population) do not have access to drinking water and 3.6 billion (46%) lack access to safely managed sanitation. [226] People in urban areas (2.4 billion) will face water scarcity by 2050. [225] Water scarcity has been described as endemic, due to overconsumption and pollution. [227]
Given a total mass of the atmosphere of 5.15 × 10 18 kilograms (1.135 × 10 19 lb), the atmosphere contains on the order of 2.03 gigatonnes (2.00 × 10 9 long tons; 2.24 × 10 9 short tons) of xenon in total when taking the average molar mass of the atmosphere as 28.96 g/mol which is equivalent to some 394-mass ppb.
The average household size was 2.15 and the average family size was 2.96. Families headed by single parents were the lowest in the DC area, under 6%, as estimated by the Census Bureau for the years 2006–2008. For the same years, the percentage of people estimated to be living alone was the third highest in the DC area, at 45%. [69]
Tobacco use is the cause of about 22% of cancer deaths. [2] Another 10% are due to obesity, poor diet, lack of physical activity or excessive alcohol consumption. [2] [8] [9] Other factors include certain infections, exposure to ionizing radiation, and environmental pollutants. [3]