Sentences with phrase «per cent of the population supported»

In 1962 only 10 per cent of the population supported what is now called «abortion on demand.»

Not exact matches

Some 70 per cent of the general population would support an abortion on the same grounds.

With a participation rate of 46.3 per cent that boils down to little over 10 per cent of the Swiss population supporting basic income.

It is unlikely the current strategy will generate public support for the more radical policies needed to reduce poverty significantly below existing levels — where around 20 per cent of the population is in poverty.

She and Yung estimate that supporting 300 million people — roughly the population of the United States — would require a solar farm covering 10 per cent of Titan, or the surface area of the entire US.

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).

«Central to the issues we are going to have to deal with are: patterns of production and consumption in the industrial world that are undermining the Earth's life - support systems; the explosive increase in population, largely in the developing world, that is adding a quarter of a million people daily; deepening disparities between rich and poor that leave 75 per cent of humanity struggling to live; and an economic system that takes no account of ecological costs or damage — one which views unfettered growth as progress.

In the GTA, where the Ontario government enacted legislation to protect 1.8 million acres of green space in 2005, close to half the population (48 per cent) «strongly» support the greenbelt.