Sentences with phrase «as the population numbers»

The church is declining in numbers even as the population numbers expand.

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The country also receives a «B» on scientific articles, measured as the number of peer - reviewed scientific articles produced in natural sciences and engineering per million population.

The annual report by Oxfam found that the number of billionaires rose at a rate of one every two days between March 2016 and March 2017, while in the United States the three richest people own the same wealth as the poorest half of the population.

He thinks that number will grow as more people — especially in the U.S., where the population has an obesity problem — try and shed a few pounds.

In choosing a community in which to open your store, you'll want to consider a number of location «whether» factors (this will serve as a review of our marketing chapter), including whether the community has a large enough population, whether its economy is stable enough for you to make money and whether the area's demographic characteristics are compatible with your target market.

Recent surveys of U.S. social media usage, such as the Pew Center's, find that Twitter is only used by 17 % of the U.S. population, and at BI Intelligence we've published data showing that Google + has overtaken Twitter in U.S. audience numbers.

First, the number of Jews who can be thought of as threatening non-Jewish control of U.S. industry is not so large as the Jewish population estimate of 1933 would suggest: the great mass of the 4,500,000 American Jews, like the great mass of American non-Jews, is made up of workers, employed or unemployed, to whom the control of U.S. industry is a purely academic matter.

That was better than April's 149,000 increase, and over twice as much as 80,000, the number of hires the U.S. Census Bureau reckons the economy needs to churn out each month simply to keep up with population growth.

To put this in perspective, the number of new Texas arrivals alone between 2014 and 2015 exceeds the total populations of several countries, including Malta (population: 429,366, as of December 2014), Brunei (411,900, as of July 2014) and Iceland (336,060, as of June 2016).

In the chart above, courtesy of a March report from theOxford Institute for Energy Studies, you can see that the number of vehicles driving on Indian roads doubled between 2007 and 2014, thanks not only to an exploding population but also the rise of India's «spending class,» as Gianni calls it.

The labor force participation rate (the number of people employed and unemployment as a percentage of the population) and the employment rate (the ratio of persons 15 and older working to the population 15 and older) are both below their 2001 and 2008 levels.

In fact, more than one third of the U.S. population is now officially obese while the number of people classified as morbidly obese jumped more than 350 % in the past three decades alone.

We do not have the number of births in the RCT area, so we multiply 5q0 by the under - 5 population (as a proxy for births over a 5 year period) and then divide by 5 to get the deaths per person per year.

We divided the total number of Millennials (which we defined as those aged 20 - 34) in each city and town by the total population.

In that case, the number of bookshops, which is a systems output — generated organically by the size of the city, the rate of literacy, the income of residents, and other relevant factors — would serve as a proxy for literacy, while population or income would serve as proxies for whatever variable one wants to measure.

Second, as the population ages and the number of retirees climbs, the costs associated with Social Security, government pensions, and healthcare retirement benefits increase.

From 2005 to 2015, Los Angeles added around the same number of units as Washington, D.C., despite having twice the population.

There are other fertility measures out there such as births per woman aged 15 to 44 years but per capita births is a nice intuitive measure that adjusts for population size and can be readily compared to other numbers — such as per capita income.

Trump wants to eradicate the threat of terrorism as eagerly as he once said he wanted to eradicate the threat of sharks — even though, in a population of more than 320 million, neither generally results in a particularly large number of deaths in the United States.

The report also showed that the number of publicly funded residential care beds has been static, even as the senior population continues to rise.

Today the population hovers just north of 319 million and, as of 2013, the number of registered vehicles has more than doubled to 255 million.

Both of these prices continue to rise as the number of insured Americans rises and the health of the insured population decreases on average.

Demographic trends have shifted dramatically in the U.S. over the past half century toward an older population, and hence potential growth has to be structurally lower today, even as we hire great numbers of people (to say nothing of deploying ever greater numbers of robots).

In 2010 Catholics made up 65 % of the population, as the numbers of evangelical Protestants and religiously unaffiliated Brazilians grew by large margins.

Even if we're only talking «evil» on a less horrific level — incarcerated criminals — we find the number of atheists and agnostics well below their demographic percentage of the population as a whole.

Beyond their misunderstanding of the facts, beyond their tolerance of draconian solutions, the [environmental and population] controllers are finally accused of regarding people, at least when found in great numbers, as a kind of pollution.

Social science experiments such as this have limited application to the wider population, for a number of reasons.

Pakistan will overtake Indonesia as home of the largest number of Muslims, as its population pushes over 256 million, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life projects.

Throughout the cold war, and now into the newly instigated War on Terrorism, tens of thousands of Americans died - many multiples of the number of those killed on 9/11 - as the direct result of such Jewish / Israeli spying and treason, but not once as anyone ever suggested that the whole Jewish population of America should be held to account for the crimes of those few traitors or for the war - like behavior of the country of which many of them, including some of our politicians, hold second passports.

With 314 million Americans, the number identifying themselves as Catholic would have to rise by three million to raise the percentage one percent, and that's three million among the portion of the population countable by surveys.

We increase the number of homeless shelters and food pantries, restore the welfare entitlement, build more prison cells, and write off a substantial part of the population as permanently incapable of citizenship.

Even the Brundtland Commission, which at first glance seems to be an exception with its blunt language about unsustainable population growth, ends in a familiar UN place: «Talking of population just as numbers glosses over an important point: People are also a creative resource, and this creativity is an asset societies must tap....

If you do not want other nations out number you in your land, it is either you should not allow immigration or make new laws as to Divorce and Marriages beside taking into consideration allowing polygamy if permited by the first female partner whether she is well giving birth or sick unable to give birth... You can not go on wiping reducing nations every time they exceed your populations??!

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Jews have been elected to Congress and appointed to high positions in government in numbers far exceeding their percentage of the population; Jews are arguably America's most affluent ethnic group; Jews have served as commissioners of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, as well as presidents of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia; and, as the wedding notices in the Sunday New York Times indicate, Jews have not been reluctant to marry Gentiles, or vice versa.

However, despite the fall in faith in the overall population, the numbers show the faithful remain as faithful as ever.

As James Wellman points out, «Evangelical numbers have grown 32 percent in the last decade in Washington, and evangelicals now account for 38 percent of the church - affiliated population.»

if F be the fraction of B's in the population, then I can prove that F as a function of number of years (N)

The AG's U.S. division grew more than twice as fast as the American population in 2012 (1.8 percent vs. 0.7 percent), gaining almost 54,000 adherents to now number nearly 3.1 million worshipers at more than 12,700 churches (up 127 from 2011).

However, as the Church grew, the number of church leaders was far fewer than one in 12 of the population, as it was in Israel; and consequently the top church leaders grew very rich.

This really interesting article looks at what will happen to population centers and climate change if, as expected, the number of livestock doubles by 2050.

To begin with, «critics who claim it is untenable to suggest he saved five thousand Jews in an area with a Jewish population of just half that number have failed to take into account the huge numbers of migrant Jews from eastern or central Europe» as the Giovanni Palatucci Association noted.

(1) to accept the ambiguity of such a high number of humans on the planet; (2) to stabilize that population as much as possible, and then (3) to find ways of allowing six to eleven billion people to live on the planet in ways that are ecologically wise.

Likewise, if there are a few rooms with 2 bi men and some with 2 gay men, or a number with none of either, but the overall number when taken as a whole is that of the 10,000 men, 1000 are gay and 1000 are bi, normal is still 10 % of each in the population.

TEXAS PRISONS are full of Baptists, Methodists, Fundies, Pentacostals, Catholics — roughly at the same percentage as their numbers in the general population.

46 Mark A. May estimated in 1933 that «since 1870 the number of college - graduate men entering the ministry relative to the needs as measured by increasing population, churches, and clergymen has declined at least forty per cent and possibly as much as seventy per cent.»

Since 1960 the Catholic population has grown from 40 to 60 million, but the number of priests and women religious has declined to 45,000 and 90,000 respectively as a result of resignations, retirements and thinning ranks of new recruits.

Tom... you... are aware that the number of people who identify themselves as «atheist» VASTLY under represents the prison population compared to their numbers in society in general, yes?

Bales reminds us that while today's 27 million may be the largest number of slaves ever held at one time, historically it is the smallest proportion of slaves relative to the world's total population, which suggests that slavery as an institution is declining.

We have the highest percentage of «Christians» in this nation with the largest prison population, the larger number of drug users and that is a nation divided over religion because of god fearing Christians who believe in this wondrous loving god that gives little girls cancer to test the faith of her parents as they watch her dying.