Sentences with phrase «percent of the nation»

Additionally, government employees compose the next 40 percent of the nation's population.

That day, total electricity consumption in Scotland — including homes, industry and businesses — was 41,866 megawatt hours, WWF Scotland said, meaning that wind power produced the equivalent of 206 percent of the nation's needs.

His personal fortune in the early 1900s was equal to 1.5 percent of the nation's gross domestic product — which would be equal to $ 270 billion today.

She noted that the largest banks held over 80 percent of the nation's assets in 2012.

GM Korea's future is important for South Korea as it accounts for some 13 percent of the nation's auto industry jobs and 16 percent of auto exports in Asia's fourth - biggest economy.

The Midwest region is home to 150 of the Fortune 500 companies and generates 22 percent of the nation's gross domestic product.

That's equal to about 7.7 percent of the nation's workforce.

It will take effect in 2020 only if it is ratified by more than 55 percent of nations, or nations that cause 55 percent of global emissions.

By 2020, that number is expected to shoot to roughly 60 million, or more than 40 percent of our nation's workforce.

The top 1 percent of Americans hold 35 percent of the nation's wealth — up slightly since 2007.

During a fundraiser in early 2012, Romney told a group of wealthy donors behind closed doors that 47 percent of the nation is willingly dependent on the government.

It accounts for just four percent of Ukraine's total territory, but has 14.5 percent of the nation's population, accounts for 20 percent of its gross domestic product, and is the source of 25 percent of exports.

Growing cannabis indoors consumes one percent of the nation's electricity.

Spending on health care accounts for a staggering 17.9 percent of the nation's gross domestic product.

Wall Street's five largest banks (including Wells Fargo) now have about 45 percent of the nation's banking assets.

Giving reasons why it introduced Tanda, Simon Khalaf, Head of Media Business & Products, told TechCrunch that: «Thirteen months ago, a national outlet reported 46 percent of our nation can't come up with a $ 400 emergency expense.»

Suburban offices account for 60 percent of the nation's total inventory and up to 80 percent of total net absorption since 1980, according to the spring 1998 issue of CB Richard Ellis Market Watch.

Cloud Peak Energy is a sustainable fuel supplier for approximately two percent of the nation's electricity.

Alibaba's retail platforms helped generate 6.1 billion package shipments in the 12 months ended June, accounting for 54 percent of the nation's total, the company said in August.

The deal gives Baidu control over China's most popular third - party store for smartphone apps as it tries to navigate the shift from desktop computing, where it has 82 percent of the nation's searches, to mobile devices.

According to Tudor Pickering Holt & Co., as much as 30 percent of the nation's refining capacity could be knocked offline if Louisiana facilities are forced to close, up from 15 percent over the weekend.

As of Monday morning, more than 2.3 million barrels of daily refining capacity was knocked offline, according to Reuters, or about 13 percent of the nation's total.

In fact, roughly 70 percent of the nation's freight is moved by nearly 32 million trucks on the road, day in and day out.

The number of women - owned firms continues to grow at a rate exceeding the national average, yet women - owned firms only employ 6 percent of the nation's workforce and contribute just under 4 percent of business revenues — roughly the same share they contributed in 1997.

As the Interior Department hosts public «listening sessions» through early March to explain its proposed five - year lease plan — which would open 95 percent of the nation's outer continental shelf to potential drilling — a growing chorus of bipartisan opposition is finding its voice.

Darryl Fears reports: «As the Interior Department hosts public «listening sessions» through early March to explain its proposed five - year lease plan — which would open 95 percent of the nation's outer continental shelf to potential drilling — a growing chorus of bipartisan opposition is finding its voice.

In 2007, the top one ten - thousandth of households took home 6 percent of the nation's income, up from 0.9 percent in 1977.

Solar power, which now generates almost 2 percent of the nation's electricity, has become popular among Democrats and Republicans alike, as people consider ways to have more control over their energy use and to reduce pollution as well as create jobs.

According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), those two states produced almost 50 percent of the nation's oil in April 2014.

Pollsters regularly report that evangelicals represent 20 percent of the nation's population.

As The Economist itself reports, the 630 Catholic hospitals make up 11 percent of the nation's total, and the Church owns «a similar number of smaller health facilities».

Only 10 percent of the nation's congregations have 350 or more active members.

He cites a World Bank study that found that institutions of law account for «57 percent of a nation's intangible wealth,» compared with 36 percent for education.

Red Dwarf «Mistaken or flawed identification has assumed a newfound prominence in recent years: It's been cited as a factor in nearly 78 percent of the nation's first 130 convictions later overturned by DNA testing, according to the New York - based Innocence Project, which works to free the wrongly convicted.

«Mistaken or flawed identification has assumed a newfound prominence in recent years: It's been cited as a factor in nearly 78 percent of the nation's first 130 convictions later overturned by DNA testing, according to the New York - based Innocence Project, which works to free the wrongly convicted.

The end result has been that the top one percent are now estimated to own between forty and fifty percent of the nation's wealth, more than the combined wealth of the bottom 95 % (source: Lcurve.org)

Whereas almost 40 percent of the nation's population belongs to the 18 - 34 age category, only 26 percent of the Reformed Church, 21 percent of the United Church of Christ, and 26 percent of the United Methodists fall into that bracket.

Even though black people make up 40 percent of our nation's missing children, when black people make up only 13 percent of our population, these missing persons generate very little media attention.

Currently, foreign assistance — America's contribution to health care and development efforts abroad — represents a fraction of 1 percent of the nation's budget.

Selling alcohol is an easy feat for a state that produces approximately 90 percent of the nation's wine.

Yet California, the nation's largest dairy state, produced nearly 18 percent of the nation's supply.

According to the website, the association represents about 1,000 wineries and affiliated businesses, responsible for over 85 percent of the nation's wine production.

«California makes 90 percent of our nation's wine and is the fourth largest producer in the world, so the scale and scope of adoption of sustainable practices are tremendous across the state's wine regions,» said Robert P. (Bobby) Koch, Wine Institute President and CEO.

The auction results can affect the New Zealand dollar as the dairy sector generates more than 7 percent of the nation's gross domestic product.

There are currently 10 FMMOs governing different regions throughout the country but California, which produces about 18 percent of the nation's milk, operates on a state order administered by the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

Wine Institute is a public policy advocacy group, representing more than 975 California wineries and affiliated businesses responsible for 85 percent of the nation's wine production.

He joins the mere 27 percent of the nation hoping for the same outcome.

If the NFL can't do this because the players are partaking in an activity that 48 percent of our nation's adults admit to trying, perhaps it can justify doing it because it's bad for business.

These school districts, which serve more than 10 percent of the nation's school children, charge an average of $ 1.80 for an elementary school meal and $ 2.14 for a high school meal.

Forty - two percent of our nation's children under 6 live in low - income families and the «opportunity gap» is rooted in these very early years.