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Percentage of population lost Years Location 1 1918 Flu: Influenza A/H1N1: 17–100 million 1–5.4% of global population [4] 1918–1920 Worldwide 2 Plague of Justinian: Bubonic plague 15–100 million 25–60% of European population [5] 541–549 North Africa, Europe, and Western Asia 3 HIV/AIDS pandemic: HIV/AIDS: 44 million (as of 2025) [a]
After 2024 changes equity sales are taxed at 12.5 percent if held for more than 1 year and 20 percent if held for less than 1 year. Indexation benefit from home capital gains has been removed and the tax rate has been bought down to 12.5 percent from 20 percent. Capital Gains Tax Rates for Fiscal Year 2017–18 (Assessment Year 2018–19) [40]
For Latinos over the same periods, the rates were 5.5%, 12.9% and 5.6% respectively. For Asians, the rates were 3.4%, 8.4%, and 3.9%. [102] [103] Whites saw their employment levels fall more than non-whites over the 2007–2016 period, as a relatively larger number of white persons moved out of the prime working age (25–54) and into retirement.
[3] [4] Carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas resulting from human activities. It accounts for more than half of warming. Methane (CH 4) emissions have almost the same short-term impact. [5] Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) and fluorinated gases (F-gases) play a lesser role in comparison. Emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in 2023 ...
On January 11, 2011, the Farm Bureau disclosed $8.5 million ($11.5 million in 2023 dollars [49]) in "domain sales income", making the acquisition of FB.com one of the ten highest domain sales in history. [89] In February 2011, Facebook announced plans to move its headquarters to the former Sun Microsystems campus in Menlo Park, California.
[87] [88] Honshu has the highest population density at 450 persons/km 2 (1200/sq mi) as of 2010, while Hokkaido has the lowest density of 64.5 persons/km 2 as of 2016. [89] As of 2014, approximately 0.5% of Japan's total area is reclaimed land (umetatechi). [90] Lake Biwa is an ancient lake and the country's largest freshwater lake. [91]
According to a report published by the Water Footprint organization in 2010, a single kilogram of beef requires 15 thousand litres (3.3 × 10 ^ 3 imp gal; 4.0 × 10 ^ 3 US gal) of water; however, the authors also make clear that this is a global average and circumstantial factors determine the amount of water used in beef production. [159]
As of March 2023, more than 5.5 billion people had received one or more doses [130] (11.8 billion in total) in over 197 countries. The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was the most widely used. [ 131 ] According to a June 2022 study, COVID-19 vaccines prevented an additional 14.4 million to 19.8 million deaths in 185 countries and territories from 8 ...