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Around 68 percent of international firms have an office in Hong Kong. [95] In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the economy of China [96] had an average annual growth rate of more than 8%. According to economic historian Angus Maddison, India had the world's largest economy during 1000 BCE and 1 CE. India was the largest economy in the world for ...
The term transgender does not have a universally accepted definition, including among researchers. [10] [11] Being transgender is distinct from sexual orientation, and transgender people may identify as heterosexual (straight), homosexual (gay or lesbian), bisexual, asexual, or otherwise, or may decline to label their sexual orientation. [12]
German advances from June to August 1941. Nazi Germany and its allies invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. [4] [5] The Nazi leadership believed that war with its ideological enemy was inevitable [6] due to the Nazi belief that conquering territory to the east—called living space ()—was essential to Germany's long-term survival, [7] [4] and the reality that the Soviet Union's natural ...
Psychopathy has a much higher prevalence in the convicted and incarcerated population, where it is thought that an estimated 15–25% of prisoners qualify for the diagnosis. [50] A study on a sample of inmates in the UK found that 7.7% of the inmates interviewed met the PCL-R cut-off of 30 for a diagnosis of psychopathy. [104]
Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z), also known as Zoomers, [1] [2] [3] is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha.Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years, with the generation most frequently being defined as people born from 1997 to 2012. [4]
An estimated 21–24 percent of students are children of alumni, [249] and the student body represents all 50 states and 88 countries. Thirty-seven percent of students come from the Midwestern United States, and 40 percent of students are U.S. students of color, eight percent are international citizens. [195]
The Catholic population in the United States grew to 3.1 million by 1860 (or approximately 10 percent of the total U.S. population of 31.4 million), [132] [133] to 6.3 million by 1880 (or approximately 13 percent of the total U.S. population of 50.2 million), [134] [135] and further to 19.8 million by 1920 (or approximately 19 percent of the ...