Sentences with phrase «more than population»

In fact the total number of mobile gamers in China is more than the population of the US.

The study also finds that these early users turn to the internet as their main source for news much more frequently than the public overall, and they have a strong preference for reading and listening to news rather than watching it - again much more than the population overall.

While that surely makes it a minority, considering India's massive population of 1.2 billion people, this percentage constitutes around 336 million people (more than the population of USA).

And much more than population, which proved to be pretty [elastic], you know; fertility rates — and some small part of this is due to Paul Ehrlich's work — dropped immensely.

But this high desert region is also home to 6.5 million people — more than the population of two - thirds of the states in the U.S.

In a report last year, the consulting firm McKinsey estimated that an additional 350 million people — more than the population of the United States — would move to the cities by 2015.

HP (hpq) recently said that they would dismiss 29,000 workers — more than the population of many U.S. towns.

OTTAWA — Nine million votes were wasted in the 2015 election under Canada's winner - take - all electoral system — that's more than the populations of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces combined, according to a new electoral reform primer outlining why the principle of proportionality must underpin the government's promise to bring in voting reform by the next federal election.

If I'm correct (which makes sense to me), populations that are heavy milk drinkers should have that gene much more than populations who don't drink milk.

Not exact matches

The implicit idea is that we women — more than half the earth's population — are all in one giant sisterhood club together.

As of Tuesday morning, it had 5,082 members — more than two times the population of St. Croix Falls.

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

The film charts the explosive growth in America's prison population; in 1970, there were about 200,000 prisoners; today, the prison population is more than 2 million.

In Mississippi, more than 37 % of the population owed money to care providers in 2015.

In the United States, the population President Trump represents emits more greenhouse gases per capita than almost anywhere.

China's working population is projected to decline by more than 10 % by 2050, while the number of retirees will triple, to more than 300 million.

The report also points out that Dreamers start businesses at more than twice the rate of the general population, in large part because they are used to making ends meet without help from the government.

Perhaps most concerning is the study's findings that the smoking rate hasn't changed in poor populations; among the rich, it's fallen more than five percentage points.

«When you start looking at the people who are active online, they tend to be demographically younger, much more electronically active than the average in the population, more educated,» notes Soberman.

There are no more tattoos or nose rings than in a representative sample of the population.

A 2010 University of Brasilia study found that 1 in 5 Brazilian women under 40 — more than 5 million women overall, or about 22 % of Brazil's population — had had at least one abortion.

Canada's youth are 15 — 20 % more likely than the population as a whole to consider emigrating in search of the right job, a split surpassed only by our southern neighbours:

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

More than 95 % of Newfoundland's population came to the island from western Europe in the mid-1700s, Gardner explains.

Also, podcast listeners are more likely to share on social networks, and they have higher income than the general population, according to Edison's research.

That's nearly half of the population and more than two times the average rate across the euro zone.

They are found more often among entrepreneurs and chief executives — the very people who put incentive plans in place to optimize performance — than in the population at large.

The rest of the population wasn't much better: Overall, 66 percent of Americans are more likely to trust debit cards than credit cards.

The United Nations estimates that by 2050 more than 60 % of the world's population will lack fresh water for drinking and cooking.

Hong Kong and Israel have more self - made billionaires than any other place, when considered as a percentage of total population.

And in a warming world, the range of some of these disease spreaders is expanding, making population control efforts more urgent than ever.

Over the coming decade, the 600 largest and best - connected cities on the planet will contain a fifth of the world's population, capture almost two - thirds of its economic growth, and encompass more than half of global GDP, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.

Shark populations around the world started to plummet, with more than a quarter of shark and ray species now at risk of extinction.

Oxitec has conducted similar trials in Brazil, Panama, and the Cayman Islands, reducing the populations of Aedes aegypti more than 90 percent, the company previously reported.

The ranking contains cities with populations of more than 300,000 and does not count deaths in combat zones or cities with unavailable data, so some dangerous cities don't appear on the list

For a time Forest City, whose population hovers near 4,000, claimed more millionaires per capita than any other place in the U.S.

In a little over two years, the service has registered 31 % of Zimbabwe's adult population, a group responsible for more than $ 200 million in transactions per month — that's about 22 % of the country's GDP — using their mobile phones.

The county, whose largest city is Wilkes - Barre and whose overall population is more than 320,000, voted for Trump in larger numbers than it did for any Republican presidential candidate since President Richard Nixon in 1972.

Starting Thursday at midnight, according to several reports, Brazil will place a 48 - hour block on WhatsApp, the Facebook - owned messaging service that has more than 90 million users in the country, where the total population is slightly above 200 million.

In a world with a population surpassing 7.5 billion people, with approximately 200,000 people moving into the world's cities every day, building remote teams that work from anywhere is more important than ever in order to sidestep the pollution of dysfunctional daily travel that has spun out of control in virtually every city across America.

Not only do these opportunities boost our economy and make us all wealthier (in more ways than one), they help diversify our populations and give us access to new technologies, better ideas, and more cultural perspectives.

In fact there were more new billionaires in the world in 2016 — 233 — than the entire population of billionaires in 1987.

Between 2008 and 2010, the number of visitors to Lower Manhattan grew to nine million from seven million, according to the Downtown Alliance, the local business improvement district, while the residential population has more than doubled since 2000, to 56,000 from 22,904.

The city of Rantoul was devastated when the base closed, having lost more than half its population and $ 100 million in commercial spending.

At their peak a century ago, there were more than 2,500 company towns housing 3 % of the US population, according to The Economist.

The project would more than triple the city's population of about 4,600 over the next 30 years.

Filipinos are one of the world's largest diaspora populations, with more than 10 million — that's one in ten — seeking work abroad.

The Dominican Republic has roughly the same population as Cuba, with more than 10 million citizens.

It explained how War had come to be flooded with far more prescription pain medicines than its population could ever reasonably or safely consume.

Meanwhile, Cuba has a population slightly more than 11 million.