accounts for
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Methane currently accounts for about one third of global warming.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
By 2040, that could represent a $17 billion stream of software revenue, Percoco added, assuming that Tesla accounts for 13.5% of the market.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Brics now accounts for 49% of the world's population, 40% of global GDP and 26% of international trade, according to BBC Monitoring's analysis.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Many of Netflix’s most-watched shows of all time come from the region, which accounts for about 40% of global revenue — the streamer’s largest market.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s energy when the body is at rest.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
