Sentences with phrase «high per capita income level»

Its award - winning school system and high per capita income level draws families and businesses to the area, leading Oldham County to be one of the fastest growing counties in the state.

Not exact matches

High poverty levels aren't a sufficient reason either, seeing as other countries with low levels of per - capita income, such as Kenya and Jamaica, consistently fare better, he added.

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Indeed, among Canada's 16 peer countries, the U.S. has the second - highest level of income per capita but also the highest rates of poverty and homicides and the lowest life expectancy.

If Canada's level of labour productivity had increased to the U.S. level (and the other four factors had stayed the same), Canada's income per capita would have been $ 8,500 higher.

Well, Dean, that's because you and your cronies live in counties with some of the highest levels of per capita personal income nationwide.

«The nation that invested the most in education, and did much of that investment during the century in which education would critically matter, was the nation that had the highest level of per capita income.»

Ms. Reed, 56, grew up in the high - poverty district tucked into the northwestern corner of Georgia, where the per - capita income is $ 16,500 and nearly a quarter of the 40,000 residents live below the poverty level.

In the early stages of economic growth degradation and pollution increase, but beyond some level of income per capita (which will vary for different indicators) the trend reverses, so that at high - income levels economic growth leads to environmental improvement.

Not necessarily because the real GDP per capita of Los Angeles is twice that of Berlin ($ US 21,432)- rather because the urbanization patterns in cities from high - income nations as Stockholm, Tokyo, and Berlin (with lower levels of GHG emissions) suggest that there is not necessarily an inevitable relationship between rising incomes, increasing use of private cars and increasing GHG emissions.

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.