Sentences with phrase «per cent of the population with»

More extreme consequences include neglect and abuse — with sexual abuse reported to occur at some time in the lives of 90 per cent of the population with learning difficulties.

Not exact matches

Western Australia has maintained the country's fastest annual population growth rate of 2.9 per cent, however the rate of growth has slowed compared with last year's figures.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

«The study results confirm that a Canada - ASEAN Free Trade Agreement will provide Canadians trading with ASEAN improved access to 8.8 per cent of the world's population.

Yet that hardly accounts for 10 per cent of the student population between WLU and Waterloo University, with a combined population of over 100,000 students.

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.

The fundamentalists, who have converted approximately 10 per cent of the Chilean population, including 15,000 members of the armed forces, are called «Reagan cults» by Catholic critics because of their close association with such Reagan supporters as Swaggart, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.

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.

The next chapter looks at Judaism and Islam which, together with Christianity, account for 54 per cent of the world's current population.

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.»

With the divorce rate among couples using NFP being less than 10 per cent of that of the general population - whether NFP is used to facilitate or space births - there's no obvious indication of imperfection.

At the time of the nation's founding, only eight to ten per cent of the population were directly connected with churches.

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.

The new rules ushered in earlier this year from Brussels may well incur incremental costs for bakers and snack manufacturers, but with one per cent of the UK's population potentially suffering from coeliac disease, the market for foods with the gluten sliced out holds considerable potential.

But with one per cent of the UK's population potentially suffering from coeliac disease, an intolerance to gluten, the market for foods with the gluten sliced out holds considerable potential.

people with non-coeliac gluten sensitivity, which is estimated to affect 5 - 10 per cent of the population.

Microsoft has discovered that 76 per cent of the population is unfamiliar with cloud computing, or fails to understand what cloud actually means.

Although Powell was widely criticised, surveys conducted at the time suggested that 67 - 82 per cent of the population agreed with his comments.

It is known that people tend to overestimate the share of immigrants (for instance Ipsos 2014 report shows that British respondents think that 31 per cent of population consists of foreign - born respondents, where the figure is closer to 13 per cent according to 2011 Census); here we also show that people's estimations of levels of immigration do not correspond to actual change in their local areas, it is the perception that seems to be linked with anti-immigration vote.

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

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.

With a total population of 1.3 billion people and a GDP growth rate last year of 7.8 per cent, albeit down from 9.3 per cent in 2011, it is set to become the largest economy in the world within a generation.

The constant repetition of that lie by a small minority of idiots among the Remain camp may have led these sick individuals to think that 52 per cent of the population quietly agreed with them.

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.

This includes increased incidence of premature delivery and increased rates of Caesarean section with a 67 per cent Caesarean rate compared to 22 per cent in the general maternity population.

«It is a completely unworkable situation with two different classes of MPs and once people actually understand that the English are 85 per cent of the population, that their MPs are in the overwhelming majority in the parliament, I think a lot of these issues fall away.»

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.

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.

The report shows 14 per cent of the UK population eat game with half of that group eating game between three or four times a week to once or twice a month.

«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.»

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.

People with these illnesses live with depressive or manic symptoms for about 50 per cent of the time, experience a decreased quality of life and have an expected life span of 10 - 15 years shorter than that of the general population.

Over two billion people, or 30 per cent of the world's population, suffer from iron deficiency with symptoms ranging from poor mental development in children to depressed immune function and anemia.

Although the change is most pronounced in the developing world, the US remains the fattest country with 71 per cent of its population obese or overweight.

ANU research predicted the population of the birds will halve every four years, with a possible decline of 94.7 per cent over 16 years.

Although aspirin reduces the risk of major cardiovascular events by 19 per cent, a more effective antithrombotic strategy could have major benefits for the large population of patients with stable cardiovascular disease.

The prevalence of mental illness among homeless individuals is much higher than the rest of the population, with more than 12 per cent suffering from severe mental illness, 11 per cent having mood disorders and close to 40 per cent reporting alcohol and drug addictions.

- 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.

Estimating its global impact is difficult but in some populations almost 2 per cent of children are born with mental retardation caused by mercury poisoning.

Their rate of sudden death declined by 89 per cent in athletes between 1979 and 2004 compared with no change in the general population.

Similarly, people with mental illness are more than twice as likely to smoke cigarettes as the general population, with estimated prevalence rates ranging between 45 to 88 per cent among people with schizophrenia, 58 to 90 per cent among those with bipolar disorder and 37 to 73 per cent among people with a major depressive disorder, compared to a rate of about 20 per cent in the general population.