Sentences with phrase «per cent of the population make»

«The reality is that just because we stand here or sit here in law school and people tell us that only two per cent of the population make it here, doesn't mean that we've arrived.

Not exact matches

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.

Malays make up about 60 per cent of the 28 - million Malaysian population, while Chinese comprise more than 25 per cent.

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.

At the moment, there is a precarious balance between Muslims and Christians, with Muslims making up some 34 per cent of the population and Ethiopia being courted by some of the oil - rich Arab states.

Category five Hurricane Maria ravaged the island of Dominica after making landfall on 18th September, leaving 98 per cent of buildings damaged and thousands without power - affecting almost the entire 70,000 population.

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.

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.

In his correspondence, dated 23rd April 2018, Bishop John quotes recent Scottish Government figures which show 57 per cent of religiously aggravated crime is committed against Catholics, who make up only 16 per cent of the population.

Over 20 % of all use of force is involved with them, even though they only make up five per cent of the population.

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

Bacon visited Tanzania on a Voluntary Service Overseas parliamentary placement to work with the Agricultural Non State Actors Forum (ANSAF), a relatively new body designed to promote the interests of farmers, particularly smallholders, who make up 80 per cent of the population of Tanzania.

Osinbajo listed the ingenuity and resilience of the people, especially the 70 per cent youth population, leadership and good governance, allowing the private sector and markets to function, focusing on infrastructural development, and the incredible opportunities that abound as some of the factors that make Africa work.

«That since the younger generation of Nigerians makes up for more than 60 per cent of the nation's population, it is our hope that they inherit this country in better shape so that they can build a much better future for themselves and their offsprings in an atmosphere that is devoid of anarchy, hate, suspicion and negativity that characterize the polarized, and clearly irreconcilable differences forced on us by the Biafran Igbos».

They are concentrated in the north, where they make up 16 per cent of the population, despite being only 2 per cent of the country's total.

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.

Asian Flu affected 17 per cent and the most recent pandemic, Hong Kong Flu, made around 8 per cent of the adult population sick, despite the use of vaccines in both cases.

«If we are serious about climate change, the 10 per cent of the global population responsible for 50 per cent of total emissions need to make deep and immediate cuts in their use of energy — and hence their carbon emissions,» says Anderson.

Abstract: M dwarf stars, which have masses less than 60 per cent that of the Sun, make up 75 per cent of the population of the stars in the Galaxy [1].

Statistical results suggest that the nearest transiting Earth - sized planet in the liquid - water,... ▽ More M dwarf stars, which have masses less than 60 per cent that of the Sun, make up 75 per cent of the population of the stars in the Galaxy [1].

«With data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealing that approximately 51 per cent of the UK population is single, Pitchit aims to make it quicker and easier to find people with similar interests and go on a date with them.

«This data show that Indigenous Australians made up three per cent of all apprentices and trainees in 2011, slightly higher than the Indigenous share of the general population at 2.5 per cent.»

Mark Steward, a leading specialist, has also stated that the Department for Education (DfE) does not record the number of pupils who are left - handed, even though they make up around 10 per cent of the population.

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.»

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.

Additionally, pupils on free school meals made up just 19 per cent of GCSE entrants, even though they make up 27 per cent of the population nationally.

Independently - schooled pupils made up 23 per cent of PISA «top performers» in science, despite making up only seven per cent of the population.

At the beginning of the twenty - first century the People's Republic of China governs the destiny of close to 1.3 billion people, or 21.6 per cent of the world's population, making it the most populous country on earth.

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.

Immigrants make up approximately 22 per cent of Canada's population.

Taking Australia's share of this budget to be 1 per cent — arguably a generous measure as the nation makes up just 0.3 per cent of the world's population — the country will emit that 2.5 billion - tonne portion within six years at present polluting rates.

They've got to talk about the obscene difference in the one per cent of the population that are making huge amounts of money, wanting to avoid taxes or any responsibility to create jobs.

Despite only comprising 4.3 per cent of the Canadian population, Aboriginals make up over 25 per cent of federally sentenced inmates.

In the 2008 jury roll from which Mr. Kokopenace's jury members were selected, Aboriginal people living on reserve made up only 4.1 per cent of the individuals, despite making up 30 per cent of the general population in the district.

The visible minority population was relatively small — four per cent of the total population — with black, Arab and Chinese people making up the three largest communities within this group.

«As a region, the UAE has always embraced skilled labour migration, with expats making up over 90 per cent of the working population.

«Europe and the UK began exporting their skills to places like the Middle East — in the UAE, 90 per cent of the population is made up of imported skilled people — but that export of continental skills has since been replaced by cheaper skilled labour from India and the Philippines.»

They should also feed directly in to the current Closing the Gap refresh process, which is reviewing targets to improve health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who suffer disproportionately high rates of incarceration, as do people with disabilities, who make up 18 per cent of the population but a staggering 50 per cent of the prison population.

Students who self - identified as Indigenous comprised 1.1 per cent of all enrolments in the first half of 2014, yet we make up 3 % of the population.

First Peoples in each country make up around 3 per cent of the total population, and are, relative to the total population, dispersed across urban, regional and remote areas.

With Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people making up 3 per cent of the Australian population, we would need to have 2,895 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander doctors to reach population parity, so we are obviously still well short of that, but it's fabulous that we have been able to double the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander doctors over the past nine years.

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.

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.

Cowra is a discrete community of about 12,000 people, with a «strong and proud» Aboriginal community that make up 7 per cent of the population, compared to 2 per cent nationally.

Aboriginal peoples in this area make up 3.4 per cent of the Basin's total population and 15 per cent of the national Indigenous population.

Of the nearly 16,500 calls to the Commission's call centre, 18 per cent of callers had identified as Indigenous, as had close to nine per cent of the victims attending private hearing sessions (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make up about 3 per cent of the Australian populationOf the nearly 16,500 calls to the Commission's call centre, 18 per cent of callers had identified as Indigenous, as had close to nine per cent of the victims attending private hearing sessions (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make up about 3 per cent of the Australian populationof callers had identified as Indigenous, as had close to nine per cent of the victims attending private hearing sessions (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make up about 3 per cent of the Australian populationof the victims attending private hearing sessions (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make up about 3 per cent of the Australian populationof the Australian population).

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.

«Yet he we are, 20 years later with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people making up around a quarter of our prison population compared to 14 per cent back then.

Markham's population of over 300,000 is made up of nearly 40 per cent of Chinese origin and 19 per cent South Asian.

• Eight per cent of Canadians own a winter recreational property or are considering purchasing one in the next three to five years, with residents of British Columbia representing the largest purchaser population (13 per cent) and Atlantic residents making up the smallest (four per cent).