Sentences with phrase «cent of the adult population»

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

If more than 1 per cent of the adult population — that is, eight of the 800 animals remaining — is removed per year, the species will go extinct, Meijaard says.

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.

The report confirms that about 1.1 per cent of the adult population — about 200,000 people — score eight or more on the Problem Gambling Severity Index (a screening tool for gambling problems) and these people are generally categorised in Australia as «problem gamblers».

Not exact matches

Only four countries - Czech Republic (nine - per - cent), Sweden (18 - per - cent), Estonia (19 - per - cent) and the Netherlands (19 - percent)- were found to have fewer Christians, as a proportion of the wider young adult population.

Medical statistics indicate that in the adult U.S. population approximately 12 per cent of males and 18 per cent of females have had a major depressive episode at some time.

They show that about 92 per cent of the population harbors bacteria with a variant of the gene sequence, according to a survey of public genome data from 250 adult humans.

Mutations affecting adult haemoglobin production are among the most common of all genetic variations, with about 5 per cent of the world's population carrying a defective gene.

Shamos believes that the modest objective of increasing scientific literacy from the current level of 5 per cent to 20 per cent — the percentage of the American adult population who are college graduates — will prove all but impossible.

A survey in Nicaragua last year concluded that 2 per cent of the country's adult population suffers pesticide poisoning annually.

It has been observed that as the population ages, the percentage of left - handed survivors decreases from 10 per cent of young adults to only one per cent of 80 - year - olds.

This means that over a five - year period, around 55 per cent of the adult Indigenous population (around 155,000 people) will receive a health check with about 600,000 chronic disease services delivered.