One point I could make is that, along with its language, England also exported a culture which valued individuality and privacy, and also that these former colonies have prospered economically, with New Zealand having the lowest ranking of the five in GDP per capita, at 35th-highest in the world. Presumably, people in Pakistan, India and Nicaragua would build houses large enough so that up to three people didn’t have to share a room, if they could afford to.

Other points could also be made, such as the relationship that seems to exist between controlled population growth (all five of the countries with the largest houses have an average annual increase of less than one percent) and a higher standard of living. Of course, there is no way to tell which way this relationship works. Do people have fewer children as living standards rise or vice-versa?

Denmark’s parliament granted Greenland self-government in 1979, but the Danish government continues to exercise control of Greenland’s foreign affairs (though Greenland actively participates in international agreements relating to itself) and the defense of the island. Denmark also supplies about half of the Greenland government’s revenues.

Greenland’s government/a> is a parliamentary democracy within Denmark’s constitutional monarchy. The current government, elected in December 2002, is a coalition of the Siumut, or Forward, party (a social democratic party advocating more distinct Greenlandic identity and greater autonomy from Denmark) and the Inuit Ataqatigiit or Inuit Ataqatigiit, or Eskimo Brotherhood party (a leftist party favoring complete independence from Denmark rather than home rule).

Almost 65 percent of Greenland’s exports go to Denmark, and the mother country is also the source of about 83 percent of the island’s imports. Greenland receives economic aid in the form of a subsidy from Denmark ($380 million in 1997), has external debt of $25 million (1999) and the Danish krone (DKK) is the official currency.

The Prostate Cancer Foundation says that over 232,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2005, and 30,000 men will die from it. It is estimated that there are over 2 million American men currently living with prostate cancer.

In the United States, one new case of prostate cancer occurs every 2.5 minutes and a man dies from the disease every 17 minutes. The chance of developing prostate cancer increases rapidly after age 50. More than 70 percent of all prostate cancers are diagnosed in men over the age of 65.

Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause (next to lung cancer) of cancer-related deaths among men in the U.S. African-American men are 65 percent more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than Caucasian-Americans and are more than twice as likely to die from it.

However, because prostate cancer is a relatively slow-growing cancer, the 5-year survival rate for prostate cancer diagnosed at all stages is 98%. The 10-year survival rate is 84% and the 15-year survival rate is 56%.

Diabetes is caused by an imbalance of insulin, a hormone that stimulates the body’s cells into absorbing glucose from the blood. The researchers who conducted the study compared the size of people’s waists with other biological markers that are known predictors of insulin sensitivity, which often leads to insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is the cause of Type 2 diabetes, which makes up about 90 percent of all cases of diabetes and usually shows up in adults 40 years of age and older.

Diabetes can lead various heart and blood disorders that are responsible for about 50 to 80 percent of deaths of diabetics. Severe forms of the disease can lead to blindness, loss of limbs and kidney failure. In Type 2 diabetes, insulin is produced at insufficient levels or does not work efficiently, either because it is defective in some way or because the cells themselves have become resistant to it. The incidence of Type 2 diabetes has risen dramatically alongside obesity rates.

The population density of Qatar is 63.26 people per square kilometer which is slightly higher than the global average of 40.3 people per sq km of land area. Population density can be found in the geography category.

The population of Costa Rica is 3,896,092 (July 2003 est). You can find this infomation by clicking on the view all countries link at the top of the page. You can also sort the countries by name by clicking the word country at the top of the list of countries.

For more information on Costa Rica including a map, see the Costa Rica detailed country profile.

The prostate is part of the male reproductive system and is located just below the bladder. The function of the prostate is to produce some of the fluid for semen which transports sperm.

Saudi Arabia’s stated reserves are 258 billion barrels, but the International Energy Association’s monthly report for August 2004 said that there will be no new Saudi Light (a high-end crude oil that any refinery can process) for the next seven years and that existing oilfields are expected to decline by 27 percent from current production levels.

Saudi Arabia claims that it can increase oil production to satisfy increased demand, but the bank analyst says promises of increased production last year didn’t come to fruition. Saudi Aramco said last year that it would produce an extra 500,000 barrels of oil immediately and an extra five million barrels per day by 2012.

According to Saudi Aramco's statistics, existing Saudi oilfields deplete by 600,000 to 800,000 barrels per day each year. If such levels are maintained until 2012, total Saudi depletion will have reached a minimum of 4.2 million barrels per day.

Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest net oil exporter.

The rate of organ donations from deceased patients in 2004 was 13.1 per million Canadians. Approximately 75 percent of transplanted organs in 2003 came from dead donors, compared to 86 percent in 1994. The average age of dead donors rose from 36 to 43, and the percentage of donors over 55 increased from 17 to 30. An average of 3.7 organs were collected from each donor, up from 3.5 in 1994.

There were 14.7 living donors per million people in 2004 and 41 percent of kidneys transplanted were from living donors.

There were 4,004 people in Canada waiting for an organ transplant at the end of 2004, an increase from 3,914 at the end of 2003. In 2004, 242 people in Canada died while awaiting organ transplants.

The cancelled debts totaled about $52 million, with Zambia owing $39.2 million, Honduras $9.5 million and Rwanda $3.2 million.

In the past year, Canada has also forgiven debts to Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia and Madagascar.