A vast number were doctors, dentists, bankers, accountants, engineers and oil traders.
No one doubts that bringing aid to such vast numbers is a task well beyond the ability of a poverty-stricken nation of 28 million, with a turbulent and violent past.
Many more people speak Chinese but even they, in vast numbers, are trying to learn English.
While a majority of those will have been kept secret for legitimate privacy purposes, vast numbers are thought to have been bought anonymously, to hide stolen money.
Even after their land was stolen and vast numbers were killed, the remaining Native Americans were not granted full citizenship until 1924, and their religious rights were not protected until 1978.
"We rightly celebrate the rich mix of people and culture in this country, but when you dig a little deeper you find that vast numbers are living parallel lives and interacting only with people very similar to themselves".
Is that the sort of society we want?" In March, TI pointed out that more than 36,000 properties in London had been bought through hidden companies in offshore havens and, while a majority of those will have been kept secret for legitimate privacy purposes, vast numbers are thought to have been bought anonymously to hide stolen money.
Weeknight, midday, and late Sunday worship schedules, therefore, for vast numbers are more accommodating than Sunday mornings alone.
Made in Vietnam in vast numbers, they were being shipped back at the rate of several thousand a day at the height of the conflict.
