Though hardly a crisis of third world proportions, not even the American dream of private home ownership is safe, never mind the European welfare state.
"This is an event of world proportions..
The MetS is considered a problem of world proportions affecting both developed and underdeveloped countries in a rapidly progressive way [ 2– 4].
There are currently no published studies in the US on the real-world proportion of melanoma patients who receive IFN therapy following surgery and there are limited data on treatment patterns and costs specifically associated with adjuvant IFN treatment in melanoma patients following surgery.
The single-brow arch is clearly a genetic mutation of out-of-this-world proportions.
Erwin's equation requires figures such as how many tree species are in the world, what proportion of bugs are beetles, and what proportion of beetles eat plants.
Many economists prefer to measure GDP using current exchange rates (which put the emerging world's proportion closer to 30%).
It is estimated that there are only about 3 million Yiddish speakers in the world, a proportion of whom are the ultra Orthodox, who do not support theater.
Despite having the biggest DNA database in the world, the proportion of reported rapes that result in a conviction on the charge of rape in Britain is an abysmal 6.5%.
In the rest of the world the proportion is less than a quarter, although that figure will be lifted by the frenzied round of mergers and acquisitions the industry is currently engaged in.
But in most of the rich world the proportion of people unemployed, though down a bit from its peak in 2009, is still alarmingly high, even as fears mount that several countries may be slipping back into recession.
