Sentences with phrase «cent of the population died»

At the first arrival of the Black Death, forty per cent of the population died.

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And yet almost 70 per cent of Nigeria's population live on less than a dollar a day, and 15 per cent of Nigerian children die before their fifth birthday.

It plagued Europe from the late Roman Empire till the 1920s, and when it arrived in Africa in 1887, 80 per cent of the livestock died — as did much of the human population.

Out of 56 chimpanzees, five died: almost 10 per cent of the population.

These have already emerged in Lithuania, says Holdenrieder, where 99 per cent of the original ash population died out.

Her condition, affecting less than two thousandths of one per cent of the population, was asymptomatic; she might have died at any time in her life.