Sentences with phrase «per cent of the population said»

51 per cent of the population said they were «unhappy with the current electoral system and want it to change» compared to only 28 per cent who want to keep FPTP.

Not exact matches

If a tiny portion of India's population reaches college educated, upper - middle class status, say 5 per cent — that's like 65 million people.

The pro-independence Scottish government says Scotland would be entitled to 90 per cent of Britain's oil wealth — based on divvying up the two countries» waters — but only liable for about 8 per cent of its 1.3 trillion pound ($ 2.1 trillion) national debt, based on its share of the U.K. population.

Stockland chief executive Mark Steinert this week said the national population growth rate of 1.6 per cent would keep driving demand for new facilities, even though traditional retailers were planning fewer new stores than they were five or six years ago.

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 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.»

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.

Depending on which figures one adopts, some 40 per cent of the population is below the poverty line (defined here as the inability to get access to 2,200 calories per day) Once the facts are acknowledged, teachers say, the appropriate value responses must still be discussed.

According to the 2013 New Zealand census, 48 per cent of the population identify as Christian, while 42 per cent say they are non-religious.

Darling says he represents a constituency which is aspirational, but they won't think you do that by giving tax breaks to those in the top 1 per cent of the population.

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.»

By 2003 12 % of the population said they had been on any anti-government demonstration, compared to two per cent in 1982.

Higher education only affects a small percentage of the population, but that three per cent could yet have a big say on the outcome of the 2015 election.

He said when these figures are considered along with inflation rate of 16.05 per cent and an annual population growth rate of approximately 2.67 per cent, then the recovery of Nigerian economy is weak and feeble.

As Chancellor Merkel has said — if Europe today accounts for just over 7 per cent of the world's population, produces around 25 per cent of global GDP and has to finance 50 per cent of global social spending, then it's obvious that it will have to work very hard to maintain its prosperity and way of life.

Eastern Germany's Association of Independent Enterprises says there is a growing discrepancy between east and west: in the western states, 5 per cent of the population works on research commissioned by industry, while in the east, only a tenth of this number work in industrial research.

Depersonalisation disorder is not as rare as you might think, says Anthony David at King's College London and the Maudsley Hospital: it may affect almost 1 per cent of the British population (Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, DOI: 10.1007 / s00127 -010-0327-7).

If more than 1 per cent of the adult population — that is, eight of the 800 animals remaining — is removed per year, the species will go extinct, Meijaard says.

Professor Sherwin, of the UNSW School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, said the advantageous mutation then spread rapidly through the population, with the proportion of birds carrying Haplotype H increasing from 17 per cent to 47 per cent during the five years of the study.

Lawton says that «around 85 per cent of the world population» are «largely untrained in critical thinking».

These have already emerged in Lithuania, says Holdenrieder, where 99 per cent of the original ash population died out.

«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.

«Many trainers adopt the super-short 10 - or 20 - second intervals; but in my experience, especially with the general population, these short blasts are done either at a lower, less effective intensity, or the all - out 110 per cent effort increases the risk of injury,» says Phillips.

Public affairs advisor for the British Red Cross said: «Only 7 per cent of the UK population has the skills and confidence to carry - out basic first aid in an emergency.

YouGov research, commissioned by the Education Support Partnership, shows that three quarters (75 per cent) of 1,250 school and college staff and leaders surveyed said they had experienced psychological, physical or behavioural symptoms because of work, which is significantly higher than the UK working population overall (62 per cent).

In response to the policy pamphlet, the Church of England's chief education officer Reverend Nigel Genders said: «The Church of England continues to be committed to the provision of high quality RE in schools, which is vital for a balanced understanding of the world today where more than 80 per cent of the population are people of faith.

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.

Now as part of Royal LePage Network Realty's Sylvan Lake office, the company says the brokerage will enjoy 51 per cent market share in terms of units sold within the City of Sylvan Lake, a population of more than 10,000.

The CRTC said more Canadians are going mobile, with smartphone ownership increasing to 67 per cent of the population from 62 per cent in 2013.

«It's not that the resources are going to disappear into nothingness, it is just that we're using resources that are scarce on a problem that doesn't exist for 80 per cent of the population,» he said.

Chris Johnson, Professor of Wildlife at University of Tasmania, said toxoplasmosis was present in 80 to 90 per cent of the state's feral cat population - one of the highest rates of the disease in the world.

The Express Tribune: Food insecurity affects 60 per cent of Pakistan's population, University of Agriculture Vice Chancellor Iqrar Ahmad Khan said on Saturday.

«We have a number of students who have indicated that they are going to exercise their rights not to participate in academic activities for the duration of the strike, and that is probably a little over 10 per cent of the total JD population, so just under 90 per cent will [participate],» says Sossin.

«You have them being 100 per cent of the detainees versus being 2 per cent of the total population,» Mr. Elliott said.

Dwyer says that, by 2031, 40 per cent of the population of Ontario will be racial minorities and the fastest - growing group will be indigenous.

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.»

«In the Vancouver market we have about seven per cent of the Realtor population, so that is a real growth market for us,» says Ash.

The share of the total population comprised of these «young seniors» will increase from seven per cent to 11.9 per cent, says Statistics Canada.

The best «save rates» for sudden cardiac arrests are in communities where a relatively high percentage of the population (50 per cent or more) has some CPR knowledge, McMillan says.

Now as part of Royal LePage Network Realty's Sylvan Lake office, the company says the brokerage will enjoy 51 per cent market share in terms of units sold within the City of Sylvan Lake, a population of more than 10,000.

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.