Only about 10
per cent of the population in the global study had both hypertension and high sodium consumption (greater than 6 grams per day).
African Americans make up 12
per cent of the population in the US, yet fewer than seven per cent of women who received doctorates in the US in 2010 were black.
Regional and remote students made up just 18.8 per cent of domestic undergraduate students at universities, compared to making up 26.4
per cent of the population in 2016.»
He said the years of underfinancing by the province has led to what he calls a «three - speed system of justice» in Quebec — those who can afford legal representation, those who rely on legal aid, and the «80
per cent of the population in the middle for whom the system is still inaccessible.»
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.
For example, nearly half the Jews
in America live
in New York City alone, and the fact that the city
of New York is so important to the life
of the country taken together with the fact that 30
per cent of the
population of that city is Jewish has the effect
of throwing its 1,765,000 Jews into very high relief.
The result is to suggest that even
in the Midwest an anti-Semitic propagandist would have up to 84
per cent of the
population actively or passively against him.
Of 80,000 individual names listed in Poor's Register of Directors 4.7 per cent appear to be Jewish as against a Jewish population percentage of about 4 or a little les
Of 80,000 individual names listed
in Poor's Register
of Directors 4.7 per cent appear to be Jewish as against a Jewish population percentage of about 4 or a little les
of Directors 4.7
per cent appear to be Jewish as against a Jewish
population percentage
of about 4 or a little les
of about 4 or a little less.
CHRONIC Fatigue Syndrome afflicts around 8
per cent of the Australian
population in some form, according to the Chronic Fatigue Advisory Centre's Paul and Linda Storer.
WOMEN make up 49.5
per cent of the working
population in the City
of Perth, according to the Australian Bureau
of Statistics» Working
Population Community Profile.
The Task Force concluded that,
in 1992, the
population included
in their analysis had a savings rate
of 10.1
per cent, which is greater than the 8.9
per cent target rate that would allow two earner families to meet their retirement income target.
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.
The Institute notes that federal public service employment, excluding military and RCMP uniformed personnel and federal government business enterprise employees, has increased by about 35
per cent between 1999 and 2009, (from 224,600 to 302,000), well
in excess
of overall growth
in population of 11
per cent over that period.
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 is reassuring
in light
of reports that more than 95
per cent of the
population experience daily periods
of mind wandering.
Volatile portions
of the diluent containing toxic fumes
of benzene and toluene began off - gassing
in the area, impacting the health
of almost 60
per cent of the local
population with symptoms such as nausea, dizziness, headaches, coughing and fatigue.
«Millennials are the future
of the workforce and will constitute over 50
per cent of the working
population in the next few years,» added Zakai.
In North America, 82 per cent of the population lives in urban area
In North America, 82
per cent of the
population lives
in urban area
in urban areas.
The most recent numbers I have — there are 8.6 Million accredited investors
in the U.S., and only 3
per cent of them are investing
in small businesses (which translates roughly to 0.1
per cent of a
population).
People might not recognize that this is a huge chunk
of the
population:
in the U.S., 35 to 45
per cent of low - income households are «unbanked» — which means that they possess neither a chequing nor a savings account.
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.
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.»
There are more than 290,000 foreign students enrolled
in Canada, accounting for 8
per cent of the post-secondary student
population and ringing
in $ 8 billion to the Canadian economy, said the Canadian Bureau for International Education.
In its newly - released 2008 yearbook
of statistics, the Vatican claims Muslims now make up 19.2
per cent of the world's
population with Catholics at 17.4
per cent.
«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.»
In 1960 the wealthiest 20
per cent of the world's
population had a
per capita income 30 tunes that
of the poorest 20
per cent.
Half a century after Independence, as
of now, we have the largest
population of poor people
in the world, one third
of our rural
population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance
of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled
in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20
per cent of global
population received 2.5
per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3
per cent.
In 1972, the top 5
per cent of the
population held 66.7
per cent of the corporate stock and 93.6
per cent of state and local bonds.
More than one - third
of the missionary force
of U.S. and Canadian Protestant churches is
in Latin America, though less than 10
per cent of the world's
population lives there.
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.
Eastern European Jews (who constitute some 90
per cent of America's Jewish
population) born here
in the «20s have children who grew to maturity
in the «60s.
He saw that
in a country where 20
per cent of the
population owns 80
per cent of the wealth and where, when times turn hard, the middle class is tempted to vent its frustrations by blaming and punishing the poor, a civil rights movement must also become a movement for economic justice.
In India, voters tend to follow along caste and religious lines, and in an area where Christians have perhaps 1 per cent of the population, the prospects for Christian candidates didn't seem particularly brigh
In India, voters tend to follow along caste and religious lines, and
in an area where Christians have perhaps 1 per cent of the population, the prospects for Christian candidates didn't seem particularly brigh
in an area where Christians have perhaps 1
per cent of the
population, the prospects for Christian candidates didn't seem particularly bright.
In the foreword to the report Dr Ahmed Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief said: «Despite global commitments to promote and to protect freedom of religion or belief, the scale of violations remains enormous, with almost 80 per cent of the world's population living in countries with «high» or «very high» levels of restrictions and / or hostilities towards certain beliefs.&raqu
In the foreword to the report Dr Ahmed Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom
of Religion or Belief said: «Despite global commitments to promote and to protect freedom
of religion or belief, the scale
of violations remains enormous, with almost 80
per cent of the world's
population living
in countries with «high» or «very high» levels of restrictions and / or hostilities towards certain beliefs.&raqu
in countries with «high» or «very high» levels
of restrictions and / or hostilities towards certain beliefs.»
This number has since grown rapidly, to the point that
in 1980 there are estimated to be 200 million Christians (or about 45
per cent of the
population).
In 1900 there were an estimated 9 million Christians (accounting for about 7
per cent of the
population of Africa).
The elderly, 12
per cent of the
population, make up little more than 3
per cent of those appearing
in either religious or general programs.
A Gallup survey conducted
in 1982 found that 43
per cent of the total
population said that they had watched religious programming
in the past 30 days.
Six
per cent of Scotland's
population has served
in the Armed Force.
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.
A survey
of membership trends from 1926 to 1947 shows that church membership increased about 40
per cent in that period, while the
population of the country as a whole increased only 24
per cent.
The assault follows a wave
of attacks
in recent months on Egypt's Christian minority - which account for ten
per cent of the country's
population.
While it is true that 80 to 90
per cent of all births out
of wedlock are to black teen - agers, and that half
of all black children live
in female - headed families, it is also the case that black males form the largest unemployed group
in the total
population, and are the lowest - paid
of employed males.
46 Mark A. May estimated
in 1933 that «since 1870 the number
of college - graduate men entering the ministry relative to the needs as measured by increasing
population, churches, and clergymen has declined at least forty
per cent and possibly as much as seventy
per cent.»
Today 75
per cent of the world's
population live
in developing countries; by the year 2000 some 79
per cent will be living
in those countries.
If by some way humanity were able to reduce the environmental impact
of all its technologies by 10
per cent and there were no increase
in per - person affluence, world
population growth would return the collective impact
of humans to the previous level
in about five years.
The present rate
of growth
of the
population in Australia
of 1.6
per cent a year is the highest
in the industrial world.
The resolution
of the problem
of injustice requires a fundamental re-examination
of the relationship between the one billion people, or 20
per cent of the world's
population, who live
in industrialized countries and who use 80
per cent of the world's resources and the majority
of the world's
population in poor countries who have to make do with 20
per cent of the world's resources.