Sentences with phrase «percent of citizens»

Japan is one of the oldest societies on earth - over 25 percent of its citizens are over 65 - and most project that it will continue to age rapidly in the coming decades.

Of course, it's probable that a high percentage of citizens would be fully satisfied with the proposed AMP, but even if just one percent of citizens is denied access to the courts even though they have the right to a trial, the proposed system would be cause for concern.

According to one survey on youth voting by a Tufts University group, in 2004, 47 percent of citizens 18 to 24 years old voted, while 66 percent of citizens 25 and older voted.

This, for a country in which just 34 percent of its citizens have completed upper secondary education.

Nearly 87 percent of our citizens have graduated high school, the highest percent in the nation.

In Ursula K. Le Guin's most famous short story, «The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,» the city of Omelas is perfect for 99.99999999999999 percent of its citizens.

Fifty percent of all citizens commute by bike, and barely anyone actually owns a car.

The increased emphasis among survey respondents mirrors a global trend: Eighty - six percent of citizens worldwide believe that companies need to place at least as much emphasis on society's interests as they do on business interests, according to a 2010 study by Edelman Global Public Relations (www.goodpurposecommunity.com).

According to a study by the African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs, 52 percent of citizens believe the role of a parliamentarian is to attend to the problems of their constituents to ensure their problems are solved with «proper representation.»

Lamenting the plight of the people of the State, he said, «the poverty level in Enugu State is debilitating with 57 percent of the citizens of Enugu State rated as poor.

Two weeks after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, less than six percent of citizens on the island have electricity, according to the Department of Defense.

And that 21 percent of citizens in Grand Rapids, where he was born, are as well.

More than 10 percent of all citizens are over 65.

The stats of the company show that fewer than 9 percent of the citizens in developing countries have ever taken a loan from a financial institution.

Saudi Arabia is a youthful country — about 70 percent of its citizens are under the age of 30 — and so the kingdom is also seeking to modernize its society and relax several restrictions that are believed to have held back economic growth.

Not exact matches

Medicare premiums could offset that increase for about 70 percent of retirees, according to The Senior Citizens League.

Citizens of the crisis - torn nation are struggling to cope with widespread food shortages, the collapse of its traditional currency and hyperinflation — which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast to hit 13,000 percent in 2018.

But the FBI notes that only about 2 percent of them are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents allowed to buy guns.

In the United States just 15 percent of green cards are awarded because applicants have skills wanted by employers, while the rest are given to applicants because they're related to a citizen.

The survey of 925 Americans was conducted between March 15 - 20 by the Digital Citizens Alliance using Survey Monkey and has a margin of error of + / - 3 percent.

And 15 percent of the suits against Citizens challenged the company's denial of responsibility for the claim.

Some 32 percent of the 3.4 million American citizens on the island still don't have power, and 9 percent still don't have water to drink or bathe in.

Suits against state - owned Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the second largest insurer, increased 32.5 percent — from 2,323 to 3,078 — between the first quarters of 2017 and 2018.

Of the 1,266 Irma - related claims filed against Citizens in January and February, 59 percent challenged the company's decisions about the scope of damages, asserting that the amount of money paid to restore homeowners to their pre-loss conditions was inadequatOf the 1,266 Irma - related claims filed against Citizens in January and February, 59 percent challenged the company's decisions about the scope of damages, asserting that the amount of money paid to restore homeowners to their pre-loss conditions was inadequatof damages, asserting that the amount of money paid to restore homeowners to their pre-loss conditions was inadequatof money paid to restore homeowners to their pre-loss conditions was inadequate.

The city, known for its large and diverse pool of skilled workers, also clocked noticeable gains in citizen engagement (which increased by 13.3 percent) and access to startup ecosystem cheerleaders (which jumped by 15.5 percent).

The study observes that Bitcoin awareness is high among UK citizens, with 71 percent of respondents having reported hearing about the digital currency, compared to 99 percent who know about PayPal, 87 percent who are aware of Western Union, 67 percent who have heard of MoneyGram, and 37 percent who know about Square.

In fact, Citizens Financial Group found that 60 percent of borrowers expect to pay off their student loans in their 40s, about 20 years after graduating from college.

Leiming Yuan, General Manager of Ant Financial's wealth management unit, said some 70 percent of Chinese citizens do not buy financial products because «most financial products in the market are designed for high - net investors and portfolio management requires both time and expertise.

In fact only 5 percent of all Chinese citizens own stock.

The large casinos are very successful, but they represent only 1 percent of the tribes, and Johnson worries about the backlash running through places like Michigan and Washington State, where citizens have suggested dissolving the Bureau of Indian Affairs and incorporating tribal lands.

Seventy percent of Jakarta's citizens approved of his performance, even as he lost the recent election.

Rupert Murdoch, who is no longer an Australian citizen, now controls seventy percent of the total circulation of Australian newspapers and has reduced competition significantly by purchasing major competing newspapers and closing or amalgamating them.

Scott estimates that the proportion of Mexican citizens without even a concept of the nation has declined from 90 percent in 1910 to 25 percent in 1963.44 Inasmuch as the population nearly tripled during that period, the expansion of nationalistic sentiment has been enormous.

The results show that more than 80 percent of Nepali citizens identify as Hindu.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

If that is not enough, more than 10 percent of American citizens declare themselves atheistic or otherwise nonreligious.

If you were a scientist hoping to isolate the fan gene, Alabama would make the perfect laboratory... A recent poll by the Mobile Register found that 90 percent of the state's citizens describe themselves as college football fans.

U.S. government leaders and an «objective» press described the Sandinistas in Nicaragua as «communist,» «Marxist,» «Marxist / Leninist,» «totalitarian,» «Cuban - backed,» or «Soviet - backed» so often that few U.S. citizens knew that Sweden was giving more aid to Nicaragua per capita than to any other country or that while Nicaragua does have both a Communist party and a Marxist - Leninist party these two parties together received less than 3 percent of the vote and are distinct from and hostile to the Sandinista party.

In the U.S., according to a Congressional Budget Office memorandum (May 1998), the top - earning one percent of Americans have as much combined income as the 100 million citizens with the lowest income.

Seventy eight percent or so of U.S. citizens are Christians, so should we pray today to the Christian God?

So do 31 percent of those born outside the US but who are now citizens.

Nearly 70 percent of evangelicals believe Dreamers should be allowed to stay in the country, with 49 percent supporting a path to citizenship and 20 percent believing they should become legal residents but not citizens, Politico / Morning Consult found.

As I've mentioned before, I personally think it is counterproductive to spend time and money trying to mess with the constitution so that it restricts the rights of U.S. citizens under the banner of «protecting the sanctity of marriage,» especially when heterosexual couples face a divorce rate that hovers between 45 and 50 percent.

In the middle: 24 percent of evangelicals say Dreamers should be allowed to stay and become legal residents, but not citizens, if they meet certain legal requirements.

Two of the books considered here cite data showing that the quintile of U.S. citizens with the highest income receives nearly 50 percent of all income, while the lowest quintile receives less than 4 percent.

In a nation that devotes nearly 14 percent of its GNP to health care, more than 40 million citizens (one - sixth of the population, most of whom are not officially impoverished) lack private or public health care insurance.

A recent poll by the Mobile Register found that 90 percent of the state's citizens describe themselves as college football fans.

The Citizens dominated proceedings with over 75 percent of the possession, and Leroy Sane was the pick of the players with a goal and an assist.

The Northfield Township Conservancy, a citizens group concerned about the traffic congestion major development would bring, wants to see at least 300 acres preserved, with office buildings and shopping allowed on no more than 20 percent of the remaining buildable land.

Needing 2,353 signatures - 10 percent of the park district «s registered voters - citizens submitted petitions with 2,920 names to the park district on Aug. 20.