Human-rights workers estimate that both hunger strikes have between 150 and 200 participants.

In 1990 the Palestinian workers in Kuwait estimated at 400,000 making up about 40% of Kuwait's population of 2 million.

In the last two years, the number of sand diggers has climbed from 800 to 1,000, the workers estimated.

The worker estimated the cost of the postponement at more than $100,000, adding, "But it means more money for us."

Although the Government did not say how many people were imperiled, donors and workers at relief agencies estimated at least five million.

Fairfield County in Connecticut has between 4,500 and 5,500 homeless people, social workers estimate.

Aid and medical workers estimate that 4,000 people have been killed and 9,000 wounded since the fighting broke out on Nov. 17.

Since the year 2000 the National Bureau of Statistics of China has added migrant worker estimates to their annual household survey.

An additional 1,000 people already live on streets in the area, social workers estimate.

The French refuse to release figures on those of North African descent in the prison system, but social workers estimate that it runs as high as 70 percent.