Sentences with phrase «per cent of the population aged»

According to the 2011 census, 16 and 17 year olds make up less than 3 per cent of the population aged over 16.

Labour force participation for Indigenous people in 2001 was 50.4 per cent of the population aged 15 years and over, compared to 62.6 per cent for non-Indigenous people.

Amnesty figures show that from July 2013 to June 2014, Indigenous young people made up an average of 96 per cent of all young people in detention in the NT (45 out of 47) while comprising around 44 per cent of the population aged between 10 and 17.

Despite making up only 5 per cent of the population aged 10 to 17, more than half of the young people in jail are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youths.

Not exact matches

As much as 3.9 per cent of B.C.'s population is employed by a startup company, defined as a company under two years of age, and that's nearly double the share in Manitoba, the province with the lowest relative rate of startup activity.

But, even at the end of the period of observation, the median after - tax adjusted income of the older population was still 80 per cent of that of the prime age population.

Over the past year, the number of people with jobs has increased by more than 2 1/2 per cent, a positive outcome given that the working - age population is increasing at around 1 1/2 per cent a year.

About 68 per cent of the Canadian population aged 15 and over was working in the autumn of 2007, compared with about 66 per cent now, according to StatsCan.

In contrast, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, the provincial, territorial and local government sector does not have a sustainable fiscal structure, even though their aggregate debt - to - GDP ratio is currently under 30 per cent, but expected to rise significantly due to the impact of an ageing population on their finances.

This trend will speed up as the population aged 60 and over reaches 42 per cent of the country's total by 2050.

Most economists expect potential economic growth to decline from about 3 per cent annually to about 2 per cent over the next ten years, as a result of continued poor productivity growth and a slowing labour force growth as the population ages.

Roughly 82 per cent of the prime - age population is now employed, about 13 percentage points higher than 40 years ago.

This partly reflects a shrinking labour force owing to the ageing of the population, but it is consistent with the payrolls survey, which reports that employment has grown by around 1/2 per cent over the year.

And the ratio of seniors to labour - force - aged population will increase from 25 per cent in 2010 to 50 per cent in 2035.

At the same time, without a sizable improvement in the efficiency of our health - care system, real health - care spending is set to increase at 3.5 per cent a year, with about 1 per cent coming from technology - driven improvements in quality of care and 2.5 per cent a year from the direct effects of population aging.

And while the downward drift in Japan's unemployment rate partly reflects the reduced participation of an aging population, at 4.5 per cent in March, the unemployment rate was at its lowest level in the past six years, consistent with increases in labour demand.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

The most rapidly aging nation in the world, and the one with the highest life expectancy, Japan by the year 2,000, according to government statistics, will have a population with 21 per cent of its members 65 or older — and the nation generally considers old age to begin at 55, when mandatory retirement usually occurs.

And it feared that even the new target announced last year, that by 2020 95 per cent of the working age population will be able to get by, will not have meant significant progress.

While stating that there were over 110,000 displaced persons in the seven designated camps in Benue State, the governor said, «Children between ages four and eight constituted 70 per cent of the population and the conditions we saw them in are not palatable.»

The NBS also found that young Nigerians have the highest prevalence of bribery in the country as 36.4 per cent Nigerian population aged 25 to 34 years are the people with highest bribery prevalence.

«With 80 per cent of breast cancers occurring in women over the age of 50 and a steadily increasing elderly population, the concerns raised in this report will only intensify over the coming years unless urgently addressed.»

66 per cent of our population are below the age of 35 and if two third are of below 35, it means there is an economy in that age bracket that government is not seeing.

More than 60 per cent of the population is below the age of 30.

- Negative economic growth and rising unemployment lead to significantly increased likelihood of younger men, aged 25 - 44, committing suicide, with a one per cent increase in unemployment leading to a 3.5 per cent rise in suicides among this age group, though migration and receiving money from family members who had migrated is found to reduce suicides among both the youth and female population.

In the population over the age of 70, the figure rises to four per cent.

The meta - analysis of findings from 15 studies by the European Eye Epidemiology Consortium found that around a quarter of the European population is short - sighted but it is nearly twice as common in younger people, with almost half (47 per cent) of the group aged between 25 and 29 years affected.

They found that with no migration, Europe's population is set to fall 17 per cent by 2050 — with a 30 per cent decrease in people of working age.

90 per cent of the population are at risk to develop it one day, notably because of their age and exposure to the sun UV - rays.

It has been observed that as the population ages, the percentage of left - handed survivors decreases from 10 per cent of young adults to only one per cent of 80 - year - olds.

According to «Statistics Canada» Seniors or those aged over 65 years account to over 16.9 per cent of the overall Canada's population, while those between 55 and 64 years old outnumber those aged 15 - 24.

Between 2002 and 2015, Gonzales studied a group of young people, between the ages of eighteen and thirty - two, in California, where undocumented residents make up seven per cent of the population and nine per cent of the workforce.

This is the Philippines, where almost 40 per cent of the roughly 100 million population are of school - going age.

McDonald says 2.6 per cent of Canada's growing population of residents 55 years of age and older are financially abused, making it the second most common form of elder abuse.

Despite the province's aging population, millennials now comprise 28 per cent of the population, outnumbering the baby boomers, according to a 2016 study by the Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton.

The participation rate, a little reported number that tracks Canadians with jobs and those looking for jobs as a percentage of the working - age population, dipped to 66.1 per cent in the latest employment data for April, down from 66.5 per cent from a year ago and from 67.8 in February 2008.

Almost 50 per cent of the total Aboriginal population is aged 24 and under, compared to less than 30 per cent of the non-Aboriginal population.

With 60 per cent of the population under the age of 25, the region needs jobs.

Part of the challenge for Hungary's employers is that the country's working age population is forecast to decline by nearly 5 per cent between 2015 and 2020.

Employment in Luxembourg continues to grow and this has resulted in a low unemployment rate of the working age population at 6 per cent.

A growing working age population — forecast to increase by nearly 5 per cent between 2015 and 2020 — coupled with rising labour force participation rates means employers will have a growing pool of labour to choose from.

By comparison, Indigenous people aged 15 - 29 years represent 2.6 per cent and Indigenous children aged 0 - 14 years 3.9 per cent of the total population for those age groups.

By then, people aged 85 years or over will make up four per cent of Australia's population, compared to only two per cent in 2012.

At 30 June 2004, there were over 36,000 CDEP participants and 220 CDEP organisations.192 In 2002 the CDEP scheme accounted for over one - quarter of the total employment of Indigenous Australians, with 13 per cent of the working - age population being employed in the CDEP scheme.

While the population aged 65 and over accounts for 18 per cent of Quebec's population in 2016, it will reach 26 per cent in 2036 as baby boomers become older.

In the overall population of B.C., the age group 51 -70 accounts for about 27 per cent of the total.

Do you realize that in the next 20 years, many communities across Canada will have more than 50 per cent of their population over the age of 55 and that number will increase?

The average age of Canadians continues to rise, with 16 per cent of our population now at 65 or older.

By 2031, more than 50 per cent of the population will be over 55 years of age.

The Canadian population aged 25 to 44 years — those with the highest probability of buying a home in any given year — is projected to increase by just two per cent between 2006 and 2016, or by 195,000, says the report.