The share of metropolitan areas with highly concentrated hospital markets, by the standards of antitrust enforcers at the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, rose to 77 percent from 63 percent over the period.
*Thais also cast votes for individual candidates in first-past-the-post constituency elections, which decided 375 of the National Assembly's 500 seats.** The post initially reported the GDP share for metropolitan Bangkok and the five provinces in its vicinity.
"Now what's happened since then is that you've seen Murdoch's share of metropolitan daily newspaper circulation as high as it ever was but the share of the total media pie represented by newspapers has got smaller," he said.
And city living is on the rise: the OECD, a rich-country think-tank, expects that by 2050, 86% of the rich world's population will live in urban areas, up from 77% in 2010.In America the share of metropolitan residents without a car has grown since the mid-1990s: 13% of people in cities of more than 3m people have no car while only 6% in rural areas live without one.
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