Sentences with phrase «cent of the country»

And it would still leave 89 per cent of the country untouched by development.

Oil accounts for 98 per cent of exports and 80 per cent of the countries fiscal revenues.

A senior Conservative MP said last night: «Suppose there was a tiny majority in favour of AV, but only 20 per cent of the country took part in the referendum; people on our side would find it hard to accept.

Thanks to her efforts, Alperton Community School is now in the top one to five per cent of the country in terms of qualifications and accreditations.

Globally, fewer than 20 per cent of countries legally guarantee 12 years of free and compulsory education.

«It's interesting, because Silverton Primary School sits in the bottom 10 per cent of the country socio - economically, and yet we perform in the top 5 per cent in the country, so the results are extremely high,» Tony said.

Sixty - five per cent of the countries surveyed identify lack of literacy as the main factor preventing adult learning and education from having a greater positive impact on health and well - being.

The two richest Canadians have the same amount of wealth as the poorest 30 per cent of the country combined, according to a new report from a group of international aid organizations.

With 60 per cent of the country surrounded by majestic mountains as a continuation of the Himalayan Alps, and more than a hundred peaks at over 3,000 metres, there is plenty on offer for winter adventure, with altitudes on a par with the Alps.

There are currently about 1.2 million millennials in Singapore, representing 22 per cent of the country's population.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the top one per cent of the country's 25.5 million tax filers accounted for 10.6 per cent of the nation's total income in 2010, down from a peak of 12.1 per cent in 2006.

It is powering the rural homes of the poorest in Bangladesh, and whole countries like Portugal, which produced an amount of renewable energy equivalent to 103.6 per cent of the country's total mainland electric energy demand in the month of March.

Canada's previous federal government did set a national goal: to have 90 per cent of our country's electricity be «non-emitting» by 2020.

This trend will speed up as the population aged 60 and over reaches 42 per cent of the country's total by 2050.

MSMEs in Vietnam make up 98 per cent of the country's total registered 600,000 enterprises.

Turkey's largest city racks up a massive 55 per cent of the country's total trade production and although 35 billionaires — more than Paris, Tokyo or Dubai — have made their homes here, it is micro services that are forging ahead.

The extremist group recently vowed to continue targeting Christians, who compromise ten per cent of the country's population.

According to a recent study by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, nearly 10 per cent of the country's 140 million people belong to 4,077 evangelical churches.

The attack was one of several deadly assaults last year on Egypt's Christian minority, which account for ten per cent of the country's population.

The assault follows a wave of attacks in recent months on Egypt's Christian minority - which account for ten per cent of the country's population.

The death of Fr Samaan Shehta is the latest in a line of deadly assaults in recent month on Egypt's Christian minority - which account for ten per cent of the country's population.

It also highlights the fact that only 25 per cent of countries had a state religion in 2011 and, of those, a minority were classed as liberal democracies.

Coptic Christians, who comprise of approximately ten per cent of the country's population, have long complained of persecution.

Of Egypt's ten million Christians, the vast majority (90 per cent) belong to the Coptic Orthodox (Egyptian conservative) church, about 10 per cent of the country's total population.

40 per cent of the country's 80 million inhabitants live in poverty.

Rabobank analyst Michael Harvey estimates at least 3 per cent to 5 per cent of the country's annual milk production will have to be stripped out of the market before prices improve.

Despite selling for $ 2.35 per litre, A2 has claimed almost 10 per cent of the country's fresh milk market.

While new viticulture practices were raising the quality of grapes in the irrigated areas along the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers that made up 80 per cent of the country's production — such as Griffiths, Mildura and the Riverland in South Australia — the scope for improvement was limited and the country needed less product, Mr Tyrrell, the chief executive of Hunter Valley - based Tyrrell's Wines, said.

A UK cooperative representing 10 per cent of the country's supply chain has fallen victim to wider uncertainty gripping the European market after going into receivership this week.

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Godsday Orubebe, has said that five per cent of the country's oil revenue from 2008 should be devoted to...

He reminded his critics that the Leitch review of education and skills predicted 40 per cent of the country will need a first degree by 2020.

Mrs Bawumia bemoaned what she termed the high rate of teenage pregnancy and emphasized the need to prioritize the health of adolescents, who constitute 29.3 per cent of the country's population.

Farmers make up about 60 per cent of the country's populace.

Data was collected before and after an unprecedented coral bleaching event in 1998, in which 90 per cent of the country's corals across 21 reefs were lost.

If solar energy were to make up 10 per cent of the country's electricity mix, this difference would add an extra 0.23 per cent to overall grid emissions in the US — a small but significant amount.

Already, the German government has pledged to generate 35 per cent of the country's electricity needs from renewable sources by 2020, rising to 80 per cent by 2050.

Even the energy - hungry US could in theory supply all of its electricity use, according to one study, using solar PV on an area equivalent to 0.6 per cent of the country — just a fraction of the existing developed and urban space.

Shao Yiming, a member of China's National Expert Committee on AIDS and a virologist in Peking, says that up to 80 per cent of the country's known HIV - positive people are drug users, mostly concentrated in Yunnan.

The average for the other 90 per cent of the country was 20 trips.

In 2008, the last year figures were available, these companies contributed 2 per cent of the country's GDP, roughly three times as much as the medtech sector did in Germany or the UK, says the Medtech Switzerland report.

US$ 198m is equivalent to only 6.5 per cent of what Brazil already invests in agricultural subsidies and less than 0.01 per cent of the country's annual GDP.

According to this agreement, 20 per cent of the country's electricity must come from non-fossil fuel sources.

In the Philippines, deforestation — there will be no forests there by the end of the century — erosion and overfishing have severely damaged the natural resource base, and insurgents control 20 per cent of the country.

And as an adviser to Germany's Chancellor Merkel over the last decade, he's seen renewable energy grow in that country so that now it provides 27 per cent of the country's electricity.