Sentences with phrase «cent of the population under»

With 60 per cent of the population under the age of 25, the region needs jobs.

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Condo prices are growing at a rate of 19 per cent year - over-year too, even though a record number of units are under construction relative to the population, according to TD Economics.

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.

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.

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.

Fifty per cent of Burundi's population is under 17 years.

Building on previous estimates on the overall irregular migrant population and including recent migration in - and out - flows, COMPAS researchers estimate a population of 120,000 irregular migrant children in the UK — that is the 0.9 per cent of overall UK's under 18 population.

Under natural conditions, the parasite has only a small impact on the locust populations: about 6 per cent of locusts are ordinarily affected by the fly.

Field trials of GM insect control have been under way for some time, including a recent test of Oxitec's mosquitoes in the Brazilian city of Jacobina, where mosquito populations plummeted by 79 per cent between June and December last year, the company claims.

Workforce data confirm ATSI peoples are significantly under - represented in schools — comprising 1.2 per cent of the teaching population in comparison to just over 5 per cent of the student cohort.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

Condo prices are growing at a rate of 19 per cent year - over-year too, even though a record number of units are under construction relative to the population, according to TD Economics.

More than 27 million consumers have access to some type of credit, which is just under 75 per cent of the country's population and also a record.

«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.

Almost 50 per cent of the total Aboriginal population is aged 24 and under, compared to less than 30 per cent of the non-Aboriginal population.