Sentences with phrase «cent of the population who»

If you're one of the 5 per cent of the population who has severe insomnia — trouble sleeping for more than a month — then your brain's white matter might be to blame.

Not exact matches

«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.»

The extremist group recently vowed to continue targeting Christians, who compromise ten per cent of the country's population.

The fundamentalists, who have converted approximately 10 per cent of the Chilean population, including 15,000 members of the armed forces, are called «Reagan cults» by Catholic critics because of their close association with such Reagan supporters as Swaggart, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.

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.

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.

In his correspondence, dated 23rd April 2018, Bishop John quotes recent Scottish Government figures which show 57 per cent of religiously aggravated crime is committed against Catholics, who make up only 16 per cent of the population.

those who suffer from coeliac disease, estimated to affect approximately one per cent of the population, and

Bacon visited Tanzania on a Voluntary Service Overseas parliamentary placement to work with the Agricultural Non State Actors Forum (ANSAF), a relatively new body designed to promote the interests of farmers, particularly smallholders, who make up 80 per cent of the population of Tanzania.

'' And the poor, who constitute about 90 per cent of the population, will be denied access.

Mrs Bawumia bemoaned what she termed the high rate of teenage pregnancy and emphasized the need to prioritize the health of adolescents, who constitute 29.3 per cent of the country's population.

WHO estimates that over 5 per cent of the world's population — 360 million people has disabling hearing loss.

51 per cent of the population said they were «unhappy with the current electoral system and want it to change» compared to only 28 per cent who want to keep FPTP.

But its numbers are recovering by an average of 11 per cent per year, according to Knapp's team, who analysed 7000 population surveys from the past 20 years in Yosemite National Park (PNAS, doi.org/brch).

- Negative economic growth and rising unemployment lead to significantly increased likelihood of younger men, aged 25 - 44, committing suicide, with a one per cent increase in unemployment leading to a 3.5 per cent rise in suicides among this age group, though migration and receiving money from family members who had migrated is found to reduce suicides among both the youth and female population.

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.

Shamos believes that the modest objective of increasing scientific literacy from the current level of 5 per cent to 20 per cent — the percentage of the American adult population who are college graduates — will prove all but impossible.

But Veldkamp's startling conclusion is that it has left 23 per cent of the global population with less water, compared with only 20 per cent who have gained.

The WHO is thought to be basing its pandemic action plan on the presumption that 25 per cent of the world's population would be stricken.

Mark Steward, a leading specialist, has also stated that the Department for Education (DfE) does not record the number of pupils who are left - handed, even though they make up around 10 per cent of the population.

Then there is another 17.5 per cent of our youth population who are underemployed (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2016), which is often harder to measure but just as important of an issue to tackle.

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.

«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.

(The Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies has reported that suicide rates in Canadian prisons are seven times higher than in the general population, and that 22 per cent of prisoners who were found to have committed suicide did so while in segregation.)

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.»

When was the last time you heard 35 per cent of aboriginal people don't use alcohol at all, are completely abstinent and that there are twice as many of us who are completely abstinent than in the general population?

The workplace study by Randstad discovered that the number of people across the world in employment who feel that they are overqualified to do their job amounts to nearly half of the population, with 47 per cent agreeing with this statement.

They should also feed directly in to the current Closing the Gap refresh process, which is reviewing targets to improve health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who suffer disproportionately high rates of incarceration, as do people with disabilities, who make up 18 per cent of the population but a staggering 50 per cent of the prison population.

Students who self - identified as Indigenous comprised 1.1 per cent of all enrolments in the first half of 2014, yet we make up 3 % of the population.