Sentences with phrase «cent youth population»

Osinbajo listed the ingenuity and resilience of the people, especially the 70 per cent youth population, leadership and good governance, allowing the private sector and markets to function, focusing on infrastructural development, and the incredible opportunities that abound as some of the factors that make Africa work.

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Economic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economic future.

He stated that the programme would target not less than 60 per cent of Nigerian population, and between 10 million and 20 million Nigerian youths would be saved from a bleak future.

While Muslims are about five per cent of the British population, its youth comprises at least ten per cent of our school population.

- 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.

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.

With about 60 per cent of Nigeria's total population being youth, and mobile penetration in the country being at around 40 per cent, mobile devices are fast bridging the internet accessibility gap among youth in the country.

Despite making up only 5 per cent of the population aged 10 to 17, more than half of the young people in jail are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youths.