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A survey by The Sleep Council showed a quarter of men never wake up in a bad mood, compared to just one in seven women.

New research suggests that at least one in seven home kitchens would fail the sort of health inspection restaurants commonly undergo.

South Sudan will start out as one of the poorest nations on the planet, where one in seven children dies before the age of five.

By 2040, more than one in four Europeans are expected to be at least 65, and one in seven at least 75.

More than one in seven households relies entirely on mobiles and has done away with a fixed line for making calls.

A fifth of men and one in seven women said they had had sex before their sixteenth birthday, and the median age for first sex was 17.

Although more than one in seven people do not have enough protein and energy in their diet today, many of the papers are optimistic.

As of November, one in seven mortgages was delinquent, up from one in 10 a year earlier.

Statistics show that one in seven American women have been treated for pelvic inflammatory disease at least once in their life.

And one in seven Britons have been so embarrassed that they have fled a room to avoid the awkward stares.

It said that women represent one in seven US military personnel in Iraq, and that most are in the lowest-paid ranks.

One in seven adults lives below the official poverty line; for children it is one in three, a truly shaming statistic.

One in seven also said they would no longer own books and will instead reade-books.

The Associated Press said one in seven Americans lives in poverty, more than 4100 million people rely on food stamps, a new record.

One in seven Americans now live on or below the poverty line, according to figures published by the US Census Bureau.

The largest American carmaker General Motors says it's cutting 10, 000 jobs or roughly one in seven of its workforce.

One in seven television sets worldwide contains a Philips picture tube, and 60 percent of all telephones contain Philips products.

An estimated one in seven couples have fertility problems.

One in seven men dislikes carrying coins in their pockets.

One in seven reported suffering from a health condition such as sleep apnoea that makes them tired during the day.

Around half of all Indian women are illiterate, compared with a ratio of around one in seven in China.

One in seven people on Earth lives in slums today.

One in seven people lived below the poverty line in 2009 in the world's richest nation.

These are all countries in southern Africa where between one in seven and one in three of all adults are infected with HIV.

Research by Mind has shown that up to one in seven men who become unemployed will develop a depressive illness within six months;