Sentences with phrase «higher percentage of the population»

The problem with Santa Claus theology is that the same polls which show a high percentage of the population to be believers also show that this belief has no significant influence on the values and practices of daily life.

There are signs of a growing public concern in America, too, where a much higher percentage of the population is connected with one or the other of the churches.

Ghana was recently noted among the top 10 countries worldwide with the highest percentage of its population without decent toilets according to a report from international NGO, WaterAid.

Ghana has been named among the top 10 countries worldwide with the highest percentage of its population without decent toilets.

This is an important distinction, because a higher percentage of the population in the Midwest lives in rural areas, when compared with other regions in the U.S., the researchers note.

It has been estimated that a high percentage of the population suffers from food intolerance.

But it seems a higher percentage of the population does better with the reverse of that.

Although osteoporosis does not show as early as with women, or in as high a percentage of the population, the mortality and morbidity rates for male hip fractures are higher for men.

More than 55 % of the College Connection enrollees are minorities and a higher percentage of this population is entering ACC as compared to the general ACC District student population.

Young professionals generally like to spend time with people their own age, so a high percentage of the population in the 45 + age bracket is less than ideal.

All three of these communities are low - income in comparison to the rest of the Twin Cities, with many residents born outside of the United States, high rates of foreclosures, and youth comprising the highest percentage of the population.

I think information would show higher levels of education mean higher percentages of population control for homeless dogs

With indigenous locals making up a higher percentage of the population, you'll be made to feel right at home with their welcoming hospitality.

All of the countries with low quality of life have a higher percentage of their population (ranging from 39 % to 50 %) consisting of children.

The problem with this is that such are an unduly high percentage of the population of many states with only one or two representatives in Congress: thus their voices are disproportionately affective on the formulation of policy.

In England there has been a baby boom over recent years, with a higher percentage of the population needing maternity care and treatment.

The best «save rates» for sudden cardiac arrests are in communities where a relatively high percentage of the population (50 per cent or more) has some CPR knowledge, McMillan says.

Not exact matches

By analyzing data and employing A / B testing to decipher, for example, how its opening in Miami differed from its opening in Atlanta, the company quickly identified key indicators that a market was a good fit, namely cities with «significant population density, restaurant density... and a high percentage of independent restaurants,» says Zabusky.

«Conversely, if the population is becoming younger, a greater percentage of the population may enroll in high school or college; yet this tells us nothing about employment opportunities for those who want to work.»

About one to two percent of people in the general population are psychopaths (that percentage is higher in prisons, boardrooms, and undergrad economics classes).

Top companies also employ a high percentage of women within the total employee population and management, provide generous benefits, and, in many cases, have flexible work policies.

«We see Southeast Asia as a region with huge growth potential for WeLab due to its high percentage of unbanked population (73 % out of 600 million) which makes it impossible to borrow and its high mobile penetration rate (133 %),» said Loong.

Roughly 82 per cent of the prime - age population is now employed, about 13 percentage points higher than 40 years ago.

The percentage of the population age 25 and older with a bachelor's degree or higher makes up 15 % of the score.

Vancouver's steady population growth, in particular its unusually high percentage of foreign - born residents, is the basis of this confidence, said Mario Lefebvre, the director of the board's Centre for Municipal Studies, in an analysis released on Thursday.

Still, no survey has had opposition higher than support, and there is still a sizable percentage of the population that has yet to make up its mind on the deal.

I also wonder why the Jewish vote seems to have such high value when they make up such a small percentage of the US population.

I have heard that we comprise a disproportionately high percentage of the troops for our population.

Why do we have the highest rate of poverty, the largest percentage of the population without health insurance, and the greatest number of gun deaths among any of the advanced industrial nations?

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Jews have been elected to Congress and appointed to high positions in government in numbers far exceeding their percentage of the population; Jews are arguably America's most affluent ethnic group; Jews have served as commissioners of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, as well as presidents of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia; and, as the wedding notices in the Sunday New York Times indicate, Jews have not been reluctant to marry Gentiles, or vice versa.

While Mormons represent only 2 % of the population, they represent a far higher percentage of the military (6 % was last number I saw), so implying that Mitt being a Mormon means he doesn't support the military is pretty spurious.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

Why does such a high percentage of the prison population identify as religious?

The percentage of the population that is poor is also much higher than in Reagan's last year: 15.1 percent versus 13.1.

We have the highest percentage of «Christians» in this nation with the largest prison population, the larger number of drug users and that is a nation divided over religion because of god fearing Christians who believe in this wondrous loving god that gives little girls cancer to test the faith of her parents as they watch her dying.

«We appeal to all age groups, so we will look for high - traffic areas that have strong population density and a high percentage of disposable income.»

While only an estimated 1 percent of the population is gluten - intolerant through celiac disease, Mintel market research reports that the percentage of consumers who buy gluten - free products is considerably higher — 11 percent in Italy and the United Kingdom, and 8 percent in France and Spain.

Though the mines help give Botswana, a country of 1.6 million people, a reasonably healthy economy, half the population lives in poverty, and the percentage of 15 - to -49-year-olds infected with HIV is the highest in the world.

I would even go so far as to say that the percentage of BW moms who are still breastfeeding at 6 months and one year is HIGHER than the general population.

Only Israel comes even close to this level of military activation of its population, even though many countries have, or had until recently, some form of mandatory military service and subsequent mandatory paramilitary or reserve service, and I am not aware of any national or insurgent military force in the world with a higher percentage of women serving than North Korea (about 33 % of soldiers in enlisted ranks and 50 % of officers in the Israeli Defense Force, which would be the runner up to North Korea, are women).

And the answer isn't: «Other developed countries have higher voter turnout» Except for an extremely small percentage of the population, those who want to vote, can.

Consequently, NYC, which is very densely populated, will have a higher percentage property tax, on top of the property being valued higher, than, say, Cincinnati, because the population density is quite a bit higher, placing far greater demands on the city services.

As an example we can take the exit polls from the 2012 presidential race, we see that while Obama won in most of the educational categories (look at the NYTimes) he did win by significantly higher margins in the postgraduate part of the population (+13 percentage points), lost college graduates by 4 %, and won people with some college by 1 %.

Higher education only affects a small percentage of the population, but that three per cent could yet have a big say on the outcome of the 2015 election.

The U.S. in 1992 ranked highest in the world for the percentage of its population with a college degree, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international data - tracking partnership among more than 35 countries.

And while the CDC reported that the percentage of middle and high school students who smoke declined from 2011 to 2015, it also said the use of electronic cigarettes in those populations has increased nearly tenfold over that period of time.

In the city's elections of 2009, 3.5 times as high of a percentage of the city's voting age population gave money to a candidate for municipal office (1.75 percent versus 0.49 percent).

A high percentage of the human population is infected with the herpes simplex virus and carries the virus in a latent state.

This refers to the early detection of potential pandemics at a stage when we might still be able to localize them, before they have had the opportunity to infect a high percentage of the local population and thereby spread around the world, as happened with HIV.