Sentences with phrase «cent of the population lives»

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

According to company officials, Bajaj Allianz wants to capture the rural market of the country because that's where about 70 per cent of the population live.

Not exact matches

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.

Undoubtedly food grain production has increased fourfold but 653 per cent of children under four remain undernourished; literacy has doubled, yet half the population is illiterate, life expectancy has improved but only 927 females survive for every 1000 males.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fifty - six per cent of the Pakistani and Bangladeshi population live in low - income households compared to 19 per cent of the white population, it notes.

As Chancellor Merkel has said — if Europe today accounts for just over 7 per cent of the world's population, produces around 25 per cent of global GDP and has to finance 50 per cent of global social spending, then it's obvious that it will have to work very hard to maintain its prosperity and way of life.

People with these illnesses live with depressive or manic symptoms for about 50 per cent of the time, experience a decreased quality of life and have an expected life span of 10 - 15 years shorter than that of the general population.

Ten per cent of the world's AIDS population live within its borders.

They estimated that more than 60 per cent of the populations of the United States, Argentina and Italy live in areas conducive to seasonal transmission of Zika virus.

More extreme consequences include neglect and abuse — with sexual abuse reported to occur at some time in the lives of 90 per cent of the population with learning difficulties.

The vaquita porpoise lives in the Gulf of California, Mexico, where illegal fishing with gill nets has slashed the population by a total of 90 per cent in the past five years

His earlier work suggests the DNA of the first population was just 60 per cent Indonesian — although he studied fewer living Malagasy and analysed shorter sections of DNA.

«With 10 per cent of the world's population, or 700 million people, living less than 10 metres above present sea level, an additional three metres of sea level rise from the Antarctic alone will have a profound impact on us all.»

Farm visits With 90 per cent of the UK's population living in cities, we have become increasingly disconnected from the farms where our food is produced.

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.

«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.

Meanwhile, the UN human settlements programme estimates that nearly 70 per cent of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2050, with most of the growth expected to take place in Asia.

In the 2008 jury roll from which Mr. Kokopenace's jury members were selected, Aboriginal people living on reserve made up only 4.1 per cent of the individuals, despite making up 30 per cent of the general population in the district.

Approximately 26 % of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples live in remote or very remote areas, compared to two per cent of the non-Indigenous population.14

[27] The Northern Territory has the highest proportion of Indigenous people living in discrete communities, approximately 45 per cent, with 81 per cent of its Indigenous population living in remote or very remote areas.

About 10 per cent of Ontario's population lives in condominiums and condos represent around 50 per cent of all new homes built in Ontario.