Sentences with phrase «cent of the population in»

Only about 10 per cent of the population in the global study had both hypertension and high sodium consumption (greater than 6 grams per day).

African Americans make up 12 per cent of the population in the US, yet fewer than seven per cent of women who received doctorates in the US in 2010 were black.

Regional and remote students made up just 18.8 per cent of domestic undergraduate students at universities, compared to making up 26.4 per cent of the population in 2016.»

He said the years of underfinancing by the province has led to what he calls a «three - speed system of justice» in Quebec — those who can afford legal representation, those who rely on legal aid, and the «80 per cent of the population in the middle for whom the system is still inaccessible.»

Not exact matches

As much as 3.9 per cent of B.C.'s population is employed by a startup company, defined as a company under two years of age, and that's nearly double the share in Manitoba, the province with the lowest relative rate of startup activity.

For example, nearly half the Jews in America live in New York City alone, and the fact that the city of New York is so important to the life of the country taken together with the fact that 30 per cent of the population of that city is Jewish has the effect of throwing its 1,765,000 Jews into very high relief.

The result is to suggest that even in the Midwest an anti-Semitic propagandist would have up to 84 per cent of the population actively or passively against him.

Of 80,000 individual names listed in Poor's Register of Directors 4.7 per cent appear to be Jewish as against a Jewish population percentage of about 4 or a little lesOf 80,000 individual names listed in Poor's Register of Directors 4.7 per cent appear to be Jewish as against a Jewish population percentage of about 4 or a little lesof Directors 4.7 per cent appear to be Jewish as against a Jewish population percentage of about 4 or a little lesof about 4 or a little less.

CHRONIC Fatigue Syndrome afflicts around 8 per cent of the Australian population in some form, according to the Chronic Fatigue Advisory Centre's Paul and Linda Storer.

WOMEN make up 49.5 per cent of the working population in the City of Perth, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics» Working Population Community Profile.

The Task Force concluded that, in 1992, the population included in their analysis had a savings rate of 10.1 per cent, which is greater than the 8.9 per cent target rate that would allow two earner families to meet their retirement income target.

About 68 per cent of the Canadian population aged 15 and over was working in the autumn of 2007, compared with about 66 per cent now, according to StatsCan.

The Institute notes that federal public service employment, excluding military and RCMP uniformed personnel and federal government business enterprise employees, has increased by about 35 per cent between 1999 and 2009, (from 224,600 to 302,000), well in excess of overall growth in population of 11 per cent over that period.

In contrast, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, the provincial, territorial and local government sector does not have a sustainable fiscal structure, even though their aggregate debt - to - GDP ratio is currently under 30 per cent, but expected to rise significantly due to the impact of an ageing population on their finances.

This is reassuring in light of reports that more than 95 per cent of the population experience daily periods of mind wandering.

Volatile portions of the diluent containing toxic fumes of benzene and toluene began off - gassing in the area, impacting the health of almost 60 per cent of the local population with symptoms such as nausea, dizziness, headaches, coughing and fatigue.

«Millennials are the future of the workforce and will constitute over 50 per cent of the working population in the next few years,» added Zakai.

In North America, 82 per cent of the population lives in urban areaIn North America, 82 per cent of the population lives in urban areain urban areas.

The most recent numbers I have — there are 8.6 Million accredited investors in the U.S., and only 3 per cent of them are investing in small businesses (which translates roughly to 0.1 per cent of a population).

People might not recognize that this is a huge chunk of the population: in the U.S., 35 to 45 per cent of low - income households are «unbanked» — which means that they possess neither a chequing nor a savings account.

And the ratio of seniors to labour - force - aged population will increase from 25 per cent in 2010 to 50 per cent in 2035.

At the same time, without a sizable improvement in the efficiency of our health - care system, real health - care spending is set to increase at 3.5 per cent a year, with about 1 per cent coming from technology - driven improvements in quality of care and 2.5 per cent a year from the direct effects of population aging.

And while the downward drift in Japan's unemployment rate partly reflects the reduced participation of an aging population, at 4.5 per cent in March, the unemployment rate was at its lowest level in the past six years, consistent with increases in labour demand.

With a population of more than 600 million and annual growth rates near five per cent, ASEAN is a market rich in opportunities for Canadian exporters.»

There are more than 290,000 foreign students enrolled in Canada, accounting for 8 per cent of the post-secondary student population and ringing in $ 8 billion to the Canadian economy, said the Canadian Bureau for International Education.

In its newly - released 2008 yearbook of statistics, the Vatican claims Muslims now make up 19.2 per cent of the world's population with Catholics at 17.4 per cent.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

In 1960 the wealthiest 20 per cent of the world's population had a per capita income 30 tunes that of the poorest 20 per cent.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

In 1972, the top 5 per cent of the population held 66.7 per cent of the corporate stock and 93.6 per cent of state and local bonds.

More than one - third of the missionary force of U.S. and Canadian Protestant churches is in Latin America, though less than 10 per cent of the world's population lives there.

The most rapidly aging nation in the world, and the one with the highest life expectancy, Japan by the year 2,000, according to government statistics, will have a population with 21 per cent of its members 65 or older — and the nation generally considers old age to begin at 55, when mandatory retirement usually occurs.

Eastern European Jews (who constitute some 90 per cent of America's Jewish population) born here in the «20s have children who grew to maturity in the «60s.

He saw that in a country where 20 per cent of the population owns 80 per cent of the wealth and where, when times turn hard, the middle class is tempted to vent its frustrations by blaming and punishing the poor, a civil rights movement must also become a movement for economic justice.

In India, voters tend to follow along caste and religious lines, and in an area where Christians have perhaps 1 per cent of the population, the prospects for Christian candidates didn't seem particularly brighIn India, voters tend to follow along caste and religious lines, and in an area where Christians have perhaps 1 per cent of the population, the prospects for Christian candidates didn't seem particularly brighin an area where Christians have perhaps 1 per cent of the population, the prospects for Christian candidates didn't seem particularly bright.

In the foreword to the report Dr Ahmed Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief said: «Despite global commitments to promote and to protect freedom of religion or belief, the scale of violations remains enormous, with almost 80 per cent of the world's population living in countries with «high» or «very high» levels of restrictions and / or hostilities towards certain beliefs.&raquIn the foreword to the report Dr Ahmed Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief said: «Despite global commitments to promote and to protect freedom of religion or belief, the scale of violations remains enormous, with almost 80 per cent of the world's population living in countries with «high» or «very high» levels of restrictions and / or hostilities towards certain beliefs.&raquin countries with «high» or «very high» levels of restrictions and / or hostilities towards certain beliefs.»

This number has since grown rapidly, to the point that in 1980 there are estimated to be 200 million Christians (or about 45 per cent of the population).

In 1900 there were an estimated 9 million Christians (accounting for about 7 per cent of the population of Africa).

The elderly, 12 per cent of the population, make up little more than 3 per cent of those appearing in either religious or general programs.

A Gallup survey conducted in 1982 found that 43 per cent of the total population said that they had watched religious programming in the past 30 days.

Six per cent of Scotland's population has served in the Armed Force.

The most significant deductions from these figures are, first, that more than half of the people of the United States are now members of religious bodies — in the neighborhood of 58 per cent — and second, that growth in church membership reveals a steady increase, not only numerically but in proportion to the general population.

A survey of membership trends from 1926 to 1947 shows that church membership increased about 40 per cent in that period, while the population of the country as a whole increased only 24 per cent.

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.

While it is true that 80 to 90 per cent of all births out of wedlock are to black teen - agers, and that half of all black children live in female - headed families, it is also the case that black males form the largest unemployed group in the total population, and are the lowest - paid of employed males.

46 Mark A. May estimated in 1933 that «since 1870 the number of college - graduate men entering the ministry relative to the needs as measured by increasing population, churches, and clergymen has declined at least forty per cent and possibly as much as seventy per cent.»

Today 75 per cent of the world's population live in developing countries; by the year 2000 some 79 per cent will be living in those countries.

If by some way humanity were able to reduce the environmental impact of all its technologies by 10 per cent and there were no increase in per - person affluence, world population growth would return the collective impact of humans to the previous level in about five years.

The present rate of growth of the population in Australia of 1.6 per cent a year is the highest in the industrial world.

The resolution of the problem of injustice requires a fundamental re-examination of the relationship between the one billion people, or 20 per cent of the world's population, who live in industrialized countries and who use 80 per cent of the world's resources and the majority of the world's population in poor countries who have to make do with 20 per cent of the world's resources.