Sentences with phrase «larger than the rest of the population»

For example, in response to the arrival of the Boomer generation, which is proportionately larger than the rest of the population, society invested heavily in: maternity wards as they arrived; elementary schools as they reached school age; colleges and universities as they approached adulthood; and new retirement models as Boomers approach 60 years of age.

Not exact matches

Immigrants older than 25 are more likely to have college degrees or graduate / professional degrees than the rest of the population at large.

For example, in addition to having higher levels of genetic diversity, populations in Africa tend to have lower amounts of linkage disequilibrium than do populations outside Africa, partly because of the larger size of human populations in Africa over the course of human history and partly because the number of modern humans who left Africa to colonize the rest of the world appears to have been relatively low (Gabriel et al. 2002).

I believe it's a fact that redheads have the largest diameter hair strands (i.e. thickest) and they also have more than the rest of the population!