Sentences with phrase «cent of adults»

Around 20 per cent of the adult population experiences breathing problems during sleep.

We also know that their persistent exclusion from school has devastating long - term consequences, with only 3 per cent of adults with a disability in the developing world having achieved basic literacy.

Their brain has grown a lot too: it's now reached 60 per cent of its adult size and has doubled in volume since birth.

A similar survey last year found 43 per cent of adults trusted the clergy.

People can now expect to spend 40 - 45 per cent of their adult lives in retirement, compared to 33 per cent in the 1980s.

With 30 per cent of adults now saying they regularly watch content online, it's no wonder advertisers are heading that way.

More than 65 per cent of adults worldwide are lactose intolerant and can not process the milk sugar lactose.

18 per cent of adults report asthma in the previous 12 months, and a quarter of 13 - 14 year olds report symptoms.

Their brain has grown a lot too: it has now reached 60 per cent of its adult size and doubled in volume since birth.

By 2050 it is estimated that at current rates 90 per cent of adults will be overweight or obese.

A recent survey by the Australian Stock Exchange found that around 29 per cent of the adult population directly owned shares, up from 16 per cent four years ago and 9 per cent a decade ago.

Smoking is already down to 15.5 per cent of adults in England, but the government wants to go further, and is also targeting a teenage smoking rate of 3 per cent

Forty - five per cent of adults between the ages of 20 and 35 working in STEM related roles believe that subjects they studied in school are useless when it comes to working, a new report shows.

Sixty - six per cent of adults think it is unacceptable for shareholders to run hospitals, children's homes or police services for profit.

Fifty - nine per cent of adult Canadians are either overweight or obese and, among children, obesity rates have almost tripled in the last 25 years.

Out of ten key types of historic buildings, 34 per cent of adults said castles should be protected for future generations, while 24 per cent believed the same should be said regarding cathedrals and churches.

Co-op Funeralcare said there is a growing trend towards celebration with 66 per cent of adults believing funerals are more about celebrating life.

The figures are more promising for Theresa May, with 53 per cent of adults satisfied with her as prime minister, up eight points from January.

Sixty six per cent of adults here have used trains in the last year, versus just 40 % in Wales.

The latest Home Office statistics reveal that between April 1999 and December 2005, 57 per cent of under - 18s and 41 per cent of adults breached their Asbos, compared to 47 per cent and 38 per cent respectively in the period to December 2003.

Today, about a quarter of cigarettes sold in the US are menthol; 30 per cent of adult smokers and more than 40 per cent of youth smokers report smoking them.

They argue that their figure of 33 per cent of adults showing contagious yawning compares well with humans since the chimps do not understand the purpose of the trial.

Ornithologists estimate that up to 10 per cent of adult robins die not from starvation or attacks by cats, but from fractured skulls obtained in territorial disputes with others of their kind.

Then in 1976, an unidentified disease wiped out 99 per cent of adult fish and continued to preferentially kill older fish for years afterwards.

It's even more concerning when you consider that 65 per cent of adults resolved at lease once to lose weight and get in shape in the New Year.

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According to the Health and Safety Executive, more than 10 million working days were lost last year to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), including back pain and upper limb disorders, and 80 per cent of adults develop lower back pain at some point in their lives.

Some statistics say that almost one - third of all kittens under three months old have roundworm, and about 10 per cent of all adult felines have it.

However the CIA's World Factbook says that Samoans have the highest rate of obesity in the world with a staggering 74.6 per cent of its adults considered obese.

According to the Pew Research Centre, 72 per cent of all adult internet users have a profile on Facebook - in fact, more than half (62 per cent) of the entire global population is now on Facebook!

In 2012 - 13, 30 per cent of adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people reported experiencing high levels of psychological distress.

As many as 77 per cent of the adults surveyed said they try and stay off social media completely on Christmas Day — a hard one to uphold we say!

Mental Health Week 2018 One of the leading causes of disability in Canada, mental illness affects one in five Canadians every year with about eight per cent of adults experiencing a major depression.

About seven per cent of adults in Germany experience chronic pain and feel constrained by it.

Forty - five per cent of adults between the ages of 20 and 35 working in STEM related roles believe that the subjects they studied in school are useless

Asian Flu affected 17 per cent and the most recent pandemic, Hong Kong Flu, made around 8 per cent of the adult population sick, despite the use of vaccines in both cases.

But just 45 per cent of adults think that grammar schools deliver work readiness, compared with 42 per cent who said this about secondary moderns.

Thirty - five per cent of adults with dyslexia report they were physically abused before they turned 18.

But infection rates are still breathtakingly high in many parts of Africa, reaching over 15 per cent of adults in countries such as South Africa and Zimbabwe.

In this first chart we see that average tax rates range from 17.3 per cent for the lowest income 20 per cent of adults (those 20 years and older) to 34.9 percent for the highest income 20 percent of adults.

Some 36 million millionaires making up less than 1 per cent of the adult population own 46 per cent of global household wealth; 70 per cent of adults — 3.5 billion people — own less than US$ 10,000 in assets and account for 2.7 per cent of wealth.

A new survey has found that 51 per cent of adults in the UK say they pray, and a fifth of them are not... More

More detailed research into a full range of spiritual beliefs, such as that conducted by Theos / ComRes last year entitled Faith of the Faithless, found that only nine per cent of the adult population was consistent in their rejection of religion.

The report says 93 per cent of adults have eaten unprocessed meat in the three months to August 2017.

The Home Office says cocaine is the only drug which has risen in use since 1998 and although cocaine use has been stable since 2000 - fewer than five per cent of adults have used the Class A drug in the last year - the government says it is determined to strengthen efforts against it.

Nearly 30 per cent of adults in the UK say evolution can't explain the origin of humans.

More than 10 per cent of adults and 25 per cent of adolescents report cannabis use over the past year.

It found 10.7 per cent of adults had significant hearing problems when listening to speech in the presence of background noise — but only 2.1 per cent used a hearing aid.

«Although ADHD occurs in approximately 4 per cent of adults, relatively few adults receive a diagnosis or treatment for the disorder.