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Standard VIII
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Distribution of Population
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Around _____ percent of the world's people stay in just 10 countries.

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eighty
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sixty
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twenty
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forty
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The correct option is B sixty
Around sixty per cent of the world’s population stay in just 10 countries. These 10 countries are China, India, the USA, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Russian Fed. and Japan.

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