Sentences with phrase «few per cent of the population»

While SAD affects just a few per cent of the population, many researchers believe that most of us are susceptible to seasonal overeating, oversleeping, and a general bodily go - slow.

Not exact matches

«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.

Stockland chief executive Mark Steinert this week said the national population growth rate of 1.6 per cent would keep driving demand for new facilities, even though traditional retailers were planning fewer new stores than they were five or six years ago.

Only four countries - Czech Republic (nine - per - cent), Sweden (18 - per - cent), Estonia (19 - per - cent) and the Netherlands (19 - percent)- were found to have fewer Christians, as a proportion of the wider young adult population.

Even if this were successfully achieved, a federation in which one of the constituent units was so dominant — England holds 84 per cent of the UK's population — would be so unbalanced that it could well fall apart after a few years.

Because we examined so many people we were able discover important «rare and low frequency» genetic differences that are present in fewer than 10 per cent of the population.

Kuller and others are also concerned that if the proportion of black people included in studies is the same as that in the overall population — about 12 per cent — there will be too few in any one study to allow separate conclusions to be drawn about them.

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.

As a result of the drought, grain prices rose 27 per cent between 2008 and 2010, and mass migration into slums with few job opportunities meant that unemployment soared in a mostly young population — a recipe for unrest.

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.

Currently, we have an epidemic of Type II Diabetes in the United States which affects 6 per cent of the population (16 million people) and is projected to grow to 10 per cent within a few years.

«The population of the Little Brown Bat in particular is now at 5 - 10 per cent of its historical levels, so, as the Environmental Review Tribunal stated in the White Pines decision in Prince Edward County, even a few deaths will have a serious impact on the species as a whole.

Around 54,000 divorces were filed in 2010 - 11 in seven reporting provinces and territories (Nova Scotia, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, representing 66 per cent of Canada's population), two - per - cent fewer than the previous year, when about 55,000 divorce files were opened.