Sentences with phrase «more than population growth»

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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.

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.

Innovation thrives on diversity; by excluding more than half of our population, we are greatly limiting economic growth.

«We're going to continue to see strong development in Calgary because of population growth, demographics, income range and the fact that we spend more than any other province.

How realistic is this proposal to keep the growth in program expenses to no more than the growth in population and inflation?

Between 2006 and the industry's peak in 2014, the number of restaurants in the U.S. grew 7.3 % to more than 638,000 — outpacing the population 6.9 % growth rate.

With a population of more than 600 million and annual growth rates near five per cent, ASEAN is a market rich in opportunities for Canadian exporters.»

The population grew by more than 2 percent two years in a row, and its 3.6 percent employment growth increase easily ranks among the survey's biggest.

Atheism is currently the fastest growing demographic, having more than doubled over the last decade and in the youth population the growth rate seems to be exponential.

By the late 1980s, more than seventy of the world's governments reported that they viewed their national fertility or population growth rates as «unsatisfactory,» and that they considered policy interventions to alter these rates to be «appropriate.»

It is rightly stressed that no sustainable society is possible apart from population stability.26 Such stability can not be attained at once, but there is great importance in developing policies which will rapidly slow population growth around the world and bring it to a halt at no more than six billion.

The FACT data show that contemporary worship is more strongly associated with membership growth than with what Dean Kelley called «strictness,» or with the outward focus of mission - minded congregations, or even with shifts in population.

The most significant deductions from these figures are, first, that more than half of the people of the United States are now members of religious bodies — in the neighborhood of 58 per cent — and second, that growth in church membership reveals a steady increase, not only numerically but in proportion to the general population.

It may therefore appear that consumption per person was a more important component than population growth.

Since the middle of the eighteenth century, the West's population has more than quadrupled while real income per head increased at least fivefold — an even faster rate than today's population growth in the Third World.

«In addition, more than half of the world's population resides in Asia, which offers tremendous opportunities for growth.»

«Today, there are an estimated 21MM Asians in the U.S.,» Tay added, «This population segment is expected to make up 15 % of U.S. population growth between 2010 — 2020 and will represent more than $ 1T in buying power in 2018 [1].

The town experienced a decade of rapid growth in which new subdivisions more than doubled the population to its current 31,000 residents, White said.

But soccer devotees and other visitors will find much more than just housing subdivisions and shopping malls in the far western suburb, which explosive growth has made the fourth largest city in Illinois, with a population of nearly 135,000.

While some of this population surge is due to Hasidim, the traditionally garbed community whose cultural practices often lead to large families of 10 or more children (and whose neighborhoods voted more heavily for John McCain in 2008 than the State of Utah), the larger Orthodox Jewish population is experiencing explosive growth in New York City as well.

He's struggled to staunch the growth of the city's homeless population despite building or protecting more than 77,000 affordable homes.

Estimates show that by 2050 the world population will be more than 9 billion and this growth will occur primarily in areas of the world already experiencing food scarcity and water availability issues, as Steven Leath, plant scientist and president of Iowa State University, noted in a lecture last year at AAAS.

In addition, the ancestors of the Bantus experienced very strong growth of their populations between 7,000 and 10,000 years ago, or more than 2,000 years before the emergence of agriculture.

The study — which integrates new maps from the Environmental Protection Agency that more precisely estimate where people live now and where future population growth is expected — predicts that under potential population growth and development projections, more than 60 million Americans may be vulnerable to a 100 - year flood by 2050.

You are more likely to read about population growth in a letter to the editor than in a news story or editorial.

1989 (left): For more than 24 years, endocrinologists Jaime Guevara - Aguirre (top left) and Arlan Rosenbloom (top right) have tracked a population of Ecuadorians with a rare genetic defect affecting the body's response to growth hormone.

Within one decade, the population growth rate had more than halved, from 2.58 per cent in 1970 to 1.16 per cent in 1979.

But every person in Britain uses more than 80 times as much fossil fuel as a Bangladeshi, so Britain's population growth effectively contributes 3.5 times as much carbon dioxide to the global atmosphere as Bangladesh's.

The study assesses the food supply available to more than 140 nations (with populations greater than 1 million) and demonstrates that food security is becoming increasingly susceptible to perturbations in demographic growth, as humanity places increasing pressure on use of limited land and water resources.

Spending on the two programs for 2013 to 2023 is projected to increase at an average rate of 3.7 percent per year, which is slower than the projected growth for private health insurance, despite that Medicare and Medicaid generally serve populations with more illness and health problems.

Their findings show that even under the lowest growth assumptions, the global population in low - elevation coastal zones could rise by more than 40 percent, from 625 million in 2000 to 879 million in 2030.

In a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by atmospheric scientists Logan Mitchell and John Lin report that suburban sprawl increases CO2 emissions more than similar population growth in a developed urban core.

Populations don't come much more fragmented than those of the little spotted kiwi, Apteryx owenii, the daintiest of New Zealand's five kiwi species and the one that seems, based on population growth, to be faring best.

The world is expected to need about 50 percent more food than it does today by 2050, due to population growth and the increasing demand for cereal - based diets in the developing world.

With rapid population growth and climate change, inland valleys are increasingly being considered as the continent's future food basket since they are generally more fertile than uplands and have higher water availability.

The A2 scenario reflects continued global population growth with decentralized ecomonic and technological changes and forecasts more extreme warming than most emission scenarios.

To that end, a population study involving more than a thousand people is on - going, to find out if external factors - such as diet and environment - can also impact muscle growth and recovery.

It is widely known that low acidity of your stomach and over growth of the bad bacteria compared to the good is a problem for more than 90 percent of the population.

In the US, the multicultural demographic comprises over a third of the population, and their spending power is growing more quickly than the country's average, per a study by the Selig Center for Economic Growth at the University of Georgia.

On work, Murray notes the great increase in the percentage of the population on disability payments, from under 1 to more than 5 percent of the labor force, and the growth in the number of prime - age males who are not in the labor force, contrasted with almost all in the labor force in 1960.

Up from just 0.5 percent in 1987 (see Figure 1), this reflects an increase of more than 300 percent in the number of students taking the SAT with accommodations, compared with overall growth in the test - taking population of only 18 percent.

And if our Mars observer would also have knowledge about the explosive population growth, about the weapons» power of destruction more and more perfected and about the division of humankind into a few political sides, he wouldn't probably forecast for us a future any brighter than that of a few rat societies being at war on a foodless boat» (p. 256).

And if our Mars observer would also have knowledge about the explosive population growth, about the weapons» power of destruction more and more perfected and about the division of humankind into a few political sides, he wouldn't probably forecast for us a future any brighter than that of a few rat societies being at war on a foodless boat»

Mr Gibb has argued that schools are receiving more than they have before and that funding will increase in order to meet the demands of growth in school population.

Over half (52 per cent) of secondary school leaders told us they received more applications than they could accommodate for last year's admissions round, and the rate of growth is set to increase at secondary level as the current primary school population moves through the system.

Arguably more important than the Latino population's relative growth is the fact that their mathematics achievement lags behind that of students of other races.

Special needs funding is now being allocated as «a blunt instrument», with cash handed out based on population growth, rather than more sophisticated measures, according to a major...

Additionally, charter schools serving low - income populations are more likely to have high academic status and high growth and less likely to have low academic status and low growth than non-charters serving low - income populations.

Despite serving a more advantaged student population than traditional public schools in LAUSD, charter effects on student test score growth were unimpressive.

And that research shows LA elementary and middle charter schools, which currently work with a more advantaged population of students, achieving notably higher test score growth than district schools.