“…The brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. …”

“…By 1990 it had climbed to nearly one hundred billion dollars, and in 2000 it approached one hundred trillion. …”

“…The cuts examined go beyond the $487 billion announced in January 2012 by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. …”

“…MERCOSUR, the Common Market of the South, represents an important economic integration area that generates a GDP of $US 600 billion, providing a market of 200 million people spread over an area of 12 million square km. …”

“…Gambling is both a multi-billion-dollar international industry and a ubiquitous social and cultural phenomenon. …”

“…The annual economic cost due to food-borne Salmonella infections in the United States alone is estimated at $2.4 billion, with an estimated 1.4 million cases of salmonellosis and more than 500 deaths annually. …”

“…With reportedly over USD50 billion lost annually through graft and illicit practices, combating corruption in Africa has been challenging. …”

“…Ornamental crops account for more than US $42 billion globally. With the exception of few floral species, limited genetic, genomic, and breeding information is publicly available, owing to the fact that the majority of breeding work is performed by the private sector. …”

“…In the UK, the commercial real estate sector has a market value of around £1.7 trillion (2019 data) and is one of the fundamental building blocks of the UK economy, directly employing more than one million people and supporting an additional million, while also contributing over £100 billion to the UK's economy each year (about 7% of UK GVA). …”

“…By the end of 2000, this process had been greatly stimulated by the inflow of some US$2.3 billion in foreign direct investment. FDI has contributed to green-field investment, mergers and acquisitions, as well as the privatisation of state-owned-enterprises. …”

“…Every year, up to US$45 billion are transferred from public budgets to manufacturing industry through support programmes in OECD countries. …”

“…Millennials are projected to have $200 billion buying power by 2017, and $10 trillion over their lifetimes — and yet industries across the board are struggling to garner their attention. …”

“…Often working on high-profile bankruptcies such as Pan Am and Texaco, Ross helped restructure more than $400 billion in assets, and was named among Bloomberg's fifty most influential people in global finance. …”

“…This loss of lives has an economic cost of around US$135 billion per year. The relative share of rural road fatalities in total road fatalities has risen from less than 55% in 1980 to more than 60% in 1996. …”

“…"Around five billion people globally are unable to address their everyday legal problems and do not have the security, opportunity, or protection to redress their grievances and injustices. …”

“…Written by an innovation expert whose products generate more than one billion dollars in annual revenue, Something Really New introduces a straightforward but powerful framework for creating exciting new product and service concepts . . . simply by asking three essential questions. …”

“…With around 3 billion subscribers, GSM is the world's most commonly used technology for wireless communication. …”

“…Unlike the techniques in other presentation books, this book's easy, step-by-step approach has been proven with billions of dollars on the line, in hundreds of IPO road shows before the world's most jaded investors…”

“…Learn how: Libra will leverage blockchain, cryptocurrency, and smart contracts within Facebook’s existing platforms A consortium of organizations across business, technology, and nonprofits will govern Libra Facebook’s Calibra digital wallet will work within this ecosystem Libra took ideas from Bitcoin and the greater blockchain community The system needs to scale to billions of users if it is to work across many devices and networks Libra could help people with little or no access to the banking system…”

“…An estimated 2 billion people, one third of the global population, are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. …”