Sentences with phrase «of the population in»

Add to it trends on the changing makeup of the population in the U.S. and a homogenous team becomes a liability:

But the proposal was widely popular with Ecuadorians, with polling at one point showing 93 % of the population in favor of keeping the ITT oil in the ground.

Even more convincing is the increasing body of evidence suggesting that over the last generation, various factors have increased the propensity of populations in developed countries to save and reduced their propensity to invest.

Economic growth depends largely on the size of the population in the labor force, making the steady wave of baby boomer retirees cause for concern.

With Americans living longer, healthier lives, this demographic keeps growing (up from 21 percent of the population in 2000 to 28 percent last year).

According to the Red Cross, «emergency shelters and food support will be needed by a large portion of the population in both territories for weeks.»

Most of the population in the U.S. live in areas that have more private security workers than public security officers.

Published on May 3, 2018 Most of the population in the U.S. live in areas that have more private security workers than public security officers.

Only about 35 percent of the population in each of the three metros voiced strong support, the poll found, while in Austin and Denver, the percentage of the population opposing the project registered in the double digits — the only two metros to do so.

What it tells us is the percentage of the population in the total US labor force — those actually working and those looking for work.

Officials estimate that emergency shelters and food support will be needed by a large portion of the population in both territories for weeks.

A census is a count of a population in a specific region.

While Christianity has declined in Europe and has only held its own (at best) in North America, it has been growing at many times the rate of population in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Always being picked on even though you make up the overwhelming majority of the population in the US!

5 % of the population in this country owns 95 % of the wealth, that means 95 % of the population only has 5 % of the wealth to work with.

between 1970 and 1988, but the proportion of the population in poverty did not decrease.

Meanwhile, Muslims will shoot up from 23.3 percent of the population in 2010 to 29.7 percent in...

This is an opportunity for those who do not know anyone who is gay (I mean, homosexuals make up about 3.5 % of the population in the US so there is a strong possibility that they personally don't know anyone who actually is gay, lesbian or bisexual) to interact with someone who is gay.

So I guess I will see 99.8 % of the population in hell if I am wrong.

People think there are so many of our population in favor of no gun control but the NRA is currently a paper tiger and not as large as one would think.

It isn't that difficult people — get over yourselves — you are less than one percentage of the population in this country.

So perhaps the figures are less discouraging than might be supposed: and certainly, 46 percent of the population in Church on Sunday is vastly higher than anywhere else in Europe with the possible exception of Poland; and after everything that has happened might be thought extraordinary.

To be sure, one major source of this increase is the growth of population in general.

Home to perhaps a quarter of the population in much of the South, African - American churches have provided the incubator in which a distinct religious - political vision of equality and justice has been nurtured.

The reasons are simple; people perceive a group representing no more than 2 - 3 % of the population in the West to have power vastly beyond their numbers, in media and finance and politics.

Today a far larger proportion of our population in the United States are members of Christian churches than ever before in our history.

Their large numbers (approximately two - fifths of the population in 1960), their relatively high levels of religious commitment and political activity, and their conservative opinions on most issues all combined to produce formidable support for the GOP up and down the ticket.

It's much bigger and there is hardly 7 % of the population in jail for having abused.

Man can reshape the conditions of his life, change the face of nature, eliminate killing diseases, reconstruct the human body, control the growth of population in ways beyond anything remotely conceivable before the twentieth century.

Non-Muslims make up less than 1 percent of the population in Turkey, where the US State Department estimates there are only about 7,000 Protestant Christians.

Alabama and Mississippi: the most unhealthy region (e.g., the most obese, the most with cardiovascular diseases and etc.), the highest illiteracy rate, the highest teenage pregnancy rates, the most cities ranking in the top 25 most crimes, the most likely to regect scientific facts, the least taxed, the least to be unionized thus the highest proportion of the population in poverty... and of course, the most religious....

Pew cites estimates that more than half of the population in China, the world's most populous country, is unaffiliated, and just 5 percent is Christian.

The present rate of growth of the population in Australia of 1.6 per cent a year is the highest in the industrial world.

for such an industrialized nation, a nation that likes to think it leads on ethics, a large portion of the population in the US is overly racist and h.omophobic.

Blacks make up more than 12 % of the population in the United States and will vote at a rate of about 98 % for Obama.

I don't want to be main stream, I actually want to be intelligent and capable of critical thinking unlike most of the population in this country.

In its millennial report on poverty, the World Bank reveals that 24 percent of the population in developing nations live — or struggle to live — in absolute poverty, on less than one dollar a day.

Because of the recent shifts of population in the Near East, the figures for Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel have been grouped together.

Magnesium is necessary for healthy artery, blood, bone, heart, muscle, and nerve function, yet experts estimate that approximately 80 percent of the population in Europe may be deficient in this important mineral.

With the use of the 1995 and 2011 — 2012 data sets, the ABS reported that adult consumers (≥ 19 y of age) of SSBs on the day of the survey decreased from 35 % of the population in 1995 to 30.6 % in 2011 — 2012 (− 13 %) with the steepest decline in younger adults aged 19 — 30 y (Figure 4).

So, I do believe that there is a certain percentage of the population in our countries perhaps in the lower income brackets who feel they can not have children because of the financial burden.

I think the most recent number I heard was that vegans account for 0.5 percent of the population in the US, from a 2008 report.

was likely devastating to a segment of the population in Haywood County, and may well account for nearly all of that 5 % drop in participation they are blaming on whole grain rich food.

«The committee recommends that the government continue to make the case to their Chinese counterparts that a vibrant civil society can offer benefits to both government and people, and should be encouraged, in the interests of involving more of the population in systems of governance and advocacy.»

Although we have seen that China, despite being a lot bigger than India in every terms has taken effective steps in order to reduce the rate of population in their country.

Electorates were a relatively small proportion of the population in most constituencies, and in the case of so called «rotten boroughs», tiny.

According to Eurostat, the unemployment rate went from 6.8 in 2009 percent to 12.3 percent of population in 2012.

So, despite persistently high employment in these periods (seen as a «price worth paying» for low inflation), living standards rose for the majority of the populations in the 1930s and 1980s.

In the span of six years, the percentage of people in favour of Catalonia being an independent state tripled until reaching just about 50 % of the population in Catalonia, its historical maximum.

We are well situated here for the largest part of the population in the United States and Canada to ship these foods out,» said Rep. Louise Slaughter.