Our ageing population, combined with increased life expectancy will place considerable strain on government resources.
Today, the ever-growing elderly population, combined with even more rapidly expanding technologies, continues to create additional need.
Oxfam's figures have gone viral: the richest 1% now have more wealth than the rest of the world's population combined.
But Russia's rapidly shrinking population, combined with draft-dodging, is threatening the old calculus.
"Changes in the population combined with a rise in the illegal trafficking of new psychoactive drugs was fuelling gang-related violence.
The ageing population combined with the ongoing drive to keep people at home, not in hospital, reinforces the vital role of community nursing.
How can it be acceptable, Collins wonders, that the wealthiest 20 Americans, "a group that could fit comfortably in one single Gulfstream G650 luxury jet," now own more wealth than the entire bottom half of the US population combined?
But human meanness is far more common than all the mental illness in the population combined, so the contribution of mental illness to this essential human trait must be very small indeed.
Here is another way to put it: the 400 wealthiest Americans have as much wealth as the entire African American population in the US combined and more than a third of the Latino population combined.
Pro-Russian feeling among the population, combined with exasperation at the effects of Russia-EU sanctions on Greek agriculture, mean that, if Tsipras were to look to Moscow for financial support, it would be a wildly popular move.
However, demand from an ageing and growing population, combined with cuts to council-funded social care that increase demand for hospital beds, have led to ever greater demands on staff.
