Sentences with phrase «per cent of children suffer»

Studies from many countries in all regions of the world suggest that up to 80 to 98 per cent of children suffer physical punishment in their homes, with a third or more experiencing severe physical punishment resulting from the use of implements.

According to figures from the Office of National Statistics, 10 per cent of children in Great Britain aged between 5 and 16 have a mental health problem, with 4 per cent of children suffering from an emotional disorder such as depression.

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World Vision released a report on Thursday that revealed that 67 per cent of displaced children in southern Syria suffer violence at school and that nine in ten children were getting no support in school to deal with their emotional trauma and social isolation.

Only 13 per cent of breastfed children had suffered from diarrhoea.

Eruviel Avila, governor of the State of Mexico, said some children had suffered burns to more than 90 per cent of their bodies and they were being sent to the United States city of Galveston, Texas, for specialised treatment.

A pensioner couple would suffer cuts equivalent to 16.2 per cent of their income, while an affluent family with children suffer cuts of 4.2 per cent.

Over two billion people, or 30 per cent of the world's population, suffer from iron deficiency with symptoms ranging from poor mental development in children to depressed immune function and anemia.

«Approximately 10 - 15 per cent of primary school children suffer from developmental reading and spelling difficulties.

And for small children, who often suffer the most severe and damaging symptoms of malaria, the vaccine appears more effective, offering up to 77 per cent protection.

Data from the charity Young Minds has shown that 110 per cent of children and young people aged five to 16 suffer from a mental health disorder.

He said: «We've done well in terms of producing live, healthy babies over the last 60, 70 years, but, by the time children are leaving school, between 10 per cent and 15 per cent of them are in trouble emotionally or mentally, and suffer from things like obesity, eating disorders, anxiety and stress.»

The Statistics Canada reported that in 2007 seven per cent of older adults are suffering some form of emotional or financial abuse at the hands of their children, partners or caregivers.

A large - scale survey of young adults by the NSPCC showed that seven per cent had, as children, suffered serious physical abuse, defined as violence causing injury or occurring regularly throughout childhood.