That number is predicted to double within a few decades.
The demand for food staples is predicted to double by 2020 as urban populations grow by 4% each year.
Last week, we learned that the numbers of those suffering from dementia are predicted to double every two decades.
AMERICA'S soaring health-care costs, already $2 trillion a year, are predicted to double in the coming decade.
Added to a long list of products, palm oil is in everything from baked goods to cosmetics, and production is predicted to double by 2020.
The world's online commerce is predicted to double between 2013 and 2018, meaning the threat will only grow in coming years.
In Austria the far-right party F.P.? was predicted to double its vote to 13.4percentt, according to the Austrian broadcaster ORF.
In America some 40m are over 65, a number that is predicted to double by 2030, accounting for a fifth of the population.
Yet oil-sands production has doubled in the past decade and is predicted to double again during the next, and expensive new pipelines and other infrastructure solidify that prediction.
Still, they are the big success story in the PC industry, with sales predicted to double this year, even as overall PC sales fall 12percentt, according to the research firm Gartner.
He said Pearson's overall business, which is dominated by educational products and services, would benefit from the rise in a global middle class, which is predicted to double in size in the next decade.
