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In the United Kingdom, proof is 1.75 times the number (expressed as a percentage). [ 23 ] [ 20 ] For example, 40% alc/vol is 80 proof in the US and 70 proof in the UK. However, since 1980, alcohol proof in the UK has been replaced by alc/vol as a measure of alcohol content, avoiding confusion between the UK and US proof standards.
It had a cyclic rate of fire of 120 rounds per minute but its top loaded 10 round clip was slow to change, which meant that although easy to wield it had a limited time on target and slow practical rate of fire. The first 20 guns were delivered in December 1917 and by the time of the armistice, there were 150 in service. [1]
21.9 20.7 20.4 10 Spain ... 21.9 15 Slovenia: 21.2 22.8 ... Total net social spending in terms of percent of GDP, takes into account public and private social ...
Approximately 24.7% of the global population is aged under 15, while 65.2% is aged 15–64 and 10.1% is aged 65 or over. [72] The median age of the world's population is estimated to be 31 years in 2020, [ 9 ] and is expected to rise to 37.9 years by 2050.
People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [ 7 ] The world population more than tripled during the 20th century from about 1.65 billion in 1900 to 5.97 billion in 1999.
Most of the rest has been fragmented, leaving only about 15 percent intact." [ 162 ] WRI also states that around the world there is "an estimated 1.5 billion hectares (3.7 billion acres) of once-productive croplands and pasturelands – an area nearly the size of Russia – are degraded.
The first table lists countries by the percentage of their population with an income of less than $2.15 (the extreme poverty line), $3.65 and $6.85 US dollars a day in 2017 international PPP prices. The data is from the most recent year available from the World Bank API. [1] [2] [3]
In recent decades, the U.S. has grown from having 9% (1990) to 15% (2020) of the population being born abroad. [75] The slopes of the tops of the differently-colored columns show the rate of percent increase in foreign-born people living in the respective countries. Foreign born population percentage in the US over time from 1850 to 2020