The new list has 793 billionaires, 332 fewer than in 2008 - putting Russian casualties at almost 17pc of the global total.

So its greenhouse gas output is an infinitesimal fraction of the global total.

Both global totals and regional trends are different, especially after 2002.

The global total for next year, if it is achieved, would surpass the record set in 2000 of $464.3 billion.

The numbers taken grew rapidly in the 1960s, peaking around 1968 with a global total of 1,250 bears that year.

In 2005, production was about 20% of the global total, second only to France, which produced 26%.

If replacement levels of fertility were not reached until 20 years later than anticipated, 2.8 billion people will be added to the projected global total.

The Final Frontier grossed $49,566,330 in the domestic box office for a global total of $63 million.

We contribute less than 2 per cent to the global total, while China's emissions alone increase by more than that every year.

Ultimately the film grossed a global total of $133,000,000, against its $21 million cost ($1 million under budget).