Sentences with phrase «cent of the population go»

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The country has declared that official Independence Day celebrations will not go ahead this year due to ongoing conflict, a food crisis that has seen 50 per cent of the population dependent on food aid, 2 million displaced internally and a further 1.9 million flee the country.

While SAD affects just a few per cent of the population, many researchers believe that most of us are susceptible to seasonal overeating, oversleeping, and a general bodily go - slow.

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.

«With data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealing that approximately 51 per cent of the UK population is single, Pitchit aims to make it quicker and easier to find people with similar interests and go on a date with them.

As far as «rights» go for the 2 - 3 per cent of the population deemed «gifted» we are still on the early days as far as I can see

This is the Philippines, where almost 40 per cent of the roughly 100 million population are of school - going age.

The CRTC said more Canadians are going mobile, with smartphone ownership increasing to 67 per cent of the population from 62 per cent in 2013.

«It's not that the resources are going to disappear into nothingness, it is just that we're using resources that are scarce on a problem that doesn't exist for 80 per cent of the population,» he said.

«Central to the issues we are going to have to deal with are: patterns of production and consumption in the industrial world that are undermining the Earth's life - support systems; the explosive increase in population, largely in the developing world, that is adding a quarter of a million people daily; deepening disparities between rich and poor that leave 75 per cent of humanity struggling to live; and an economic system that takes no account of ecological costs or damage — one which views unfettered growth as progress.

«We have a number of students who have indicated that they are going to exercise their rights not to participate in academic activities for the duration of the strike, and that is probably a little over 10 per cent of the total JD population, so just under 90 per cent will [participate],» says Sossin.