Sentences with phrase «percentage of the population live»

The researchers found that every 1 casino slot per capita gained was associated with an increase in average per capita annual income, a decrease in the percentage of the population living in poverty, and a decrease in the percentage of overweight / obesity.

A March 2012 report found that chronic early absenteeism is widespread in Kent County's urban areas, where the percentage of the population living at or below the poverty line is high, and is especially prevalent among African - American and Hispanic youth.

Sea level rise near the end of the century that affects a tiny percentage of the land area of a country, even with a large percentage of population living there today, can be a relatively minor problem if it is managed appropriately.

... even with a large percentage of population living there today, can be a relatively minor problem if it is managed appropriately.

Descriptions like «the percentage of the area where a certain percentage of the population lives or a certain percentage of stuff gets produced» might be tough for pupils to grasp.

With a large percentage of their populations living in cities with quick access to emergency medical care, British Columbia and Ontario had the highest average life expectancies at 81.2 years old and 81 years old, respectively.

Not exact matches

She lives in a state where blacks make up a very small percentage of the population.

Jeremy before the Gospel was preached in New Zealand my people the maori people already had many gods and lived under there own type of spiritual law.They had rituals to keep themselves holy or pure but was by works.They also believed that there was one supreme God who was above all other Gods and his name was eo.So when the Missionaries came they understood the message of a supreme God and the way to know him was through his son over 60 % of maori people accepted the Gospel.It was bigger revival than the welsh revival in terms of percentage of population the welsh revival was only 10 % of the population of wales and that was considered a large revival in its day the new zealand revival was in the years 1820 - 1840.

The problem with Santa Claus theology is that the same polls which show a high percentage of the population to be believers also show that this belief has no significant influence on the values and practices of daily life.

My second argument is that even if by some measures vast growth does reduce the percentage of the world's population that is desperately poor, present policies will destroy the natural basis for our life together long before they resolve the problem of poverty.

The distinction between persons of a homosexual orientation and people who choose to engage in same - gender sexual acts comes from the growing conviction that for a percentage of every population, homosexuality is a given, a life orientation that they did not choose.

On the whole, the rate of taxation is roughly proportional to income, except for the richest 5 % of the population.5 These percentages take on more meaning when it is recognized that 90 % of American families lived on incomes of less than $ 13,000 after taxes in 1970.6

If those elements of the population for whom crime is an acceptable alternative grow to any sizable percentage because of economic privation or because of prejudice, or if these alienated groups are prevented from finding a way to work within the system, then the whole society will be reduced very quickly to choosing between living in a police state or living in anarchy.

Steve Clifford, general director of the Evangelical Alliance UK, who also chairs Hope, added: «We want to raise the bar in the UK population's understanding of who Jesus is, and increase the percentage of people in the UK who know a follower of Jesus who has positively shared life and faith with them.»

Though the mines help give Botswana, a country of 1.6 million people, a reasonably healthy economy, half the population lives in poverty, and the percentage of 15 - to -49-year-olds infected with HIV is the highest in the world.

That sounds like something of an understatement for those in the business community, especially for many who live and work upstate, where property taxes as an overall percentage of home values are out of whack, the population is shrinking and graying and the jobs are scarce.

Urban air quality continues to be a primary health concern as most of the world's population currently lives in urban areas (54 % in 2014), and percentage is projected to rise to 66 % by 2050; this is coupled with the fact that one of the main global sources of air pollution in cities is traffic emissions.

Some physicians argue that although tiny blood pressure drops will not have a big effect on individuals — they will not really affect your risk of having a heart attack — they may end up saving lives at the population level, in part because a small percentage of the population, including some African - Americans and elderly individuals, seem to be hypersensitive to salt.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

This is an important distinction, because a higher percentage of the population in the Midwest lives in rural areas, when compared with other regions in the U.S., the researchers note.

In the future, due to population growth, and the increase of not only the percentage of Americans living in disaster - prone areas, but also the number of natural disasters, the problem is going to get bigger.

But for a percentage of the population, life minus sex is a very real thing.

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For the first time, researchers looked at the percentage of a city's population that lives within a 10 - minute walk of a park space.

In other words, the lucky (but small) percentage of the population that lives near the ocean (a good source of magnesium) and eats foods grown in magnesium rich soil, drinks magnesium rich water, and doesn't suffer from stress or consume sugar or caffeine might be ok... but the rest of us might need some additional magnesium.

Brad Pitt helped produce the movie, and considering its immense scale and enormous population (both live and undead), he appears on - screen a remarkable percentage of the time, playing one of those indestructible super-secret-agent guys customarily portrayed by Tom Cruise.

We account for the variation in funding that should be directly attributed to the percentage of the student population living in poverty, independent of any change produced by an SFJ.

Expectations have been raised, the student population has grown to more than 24,000 and a higher percentage of students live in or near poverty.

Research, in fact, consistently finds a strong correlation between measures of principal quality and school characteristics — especially student performance levels and the percentage of the school population living in poverty enrolled in the school.

A much larger percentage of the overall population than the overall population in Europe, for example, is starting to use tablets to enhance their daily lives.

Back in Abraham Cross's day, trials are not in short supply down South, but in the sense that daily life is a trial for a major percentage of the population.

To determine the cities most conducive to senior living, we first found the percentage of each city's population that is 60 years and older, giving newly - retired and transplanted people a better chance at making new friends.

Situated near Ft Hood, both Killeen and Harker Heights have a large percentage of the population who are living here because of a family member in the military.

So, we used U.S. Census data to determine what percentage of each city's population is women who live alone (but we gave it half the weight of the other data).

Although this is a small percentage of the cities in Canada, they hold 30 % of our population and when their metropolitan areas are included; this jumps to almost half the people living in the country.

A certain percentage of any living population of pest has a gene or three that confer resistance to the chemical coming at them.

In Milwaukee, the WHS looked at each ZIP code in the city, filling the spreadsheet with such information as the total population, number of households, percentage of renter - occupied homes, racial makeup, level of education, median age, unemployment rate, average income and percentage of people living below the poverty line.

Some have claimed it to work well, and I have watched streams on Xbox Live, but for a pretty significant percentage of the population, it seems to not work.

All of the countries with low quality of life have a higher percentage of their population (ranging from 39 % to 50 %) consisting of children.

The United Nations projects India's population to continue to become more urbanized; about 45 % of the Indian population will live in urban areas by 2040, an increase of nearly 12 percentage points from 2015.

Seems to me that the percentage below sea level may be around 25 percent, the percentage of the population that lives there is way above 25 percent of the total population, since it is the most populated part of the country.

«Given that 50 % of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 % by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

We all know a higher percentage of the world population has been living in the northern hemisphere since that time and continue to do so.

I did a simple regression analysis of life expectancy against both fossil energy consumption and percentage of population with access to electricity.

Sea levels will rise, flooding populations along the coastlines (where a large percentage of people live), and ocean acidification will cause marine ecosystems to decline.

Meanwhile, these four types of damage caused by the problem are getting worse: (1) to the population in that there are many thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of legal services; (2) to the courts in that they are being clogged, as judges have warned, by high percentages of self - represented litigants, because their cases move much more slowly than those that have lawyers; (3) to the legal profession in that it is shrinking and is predicted to have a very negative future of contracting and of law firms failing; and, (4) to legal aid organizations because it is politically very unwise for governments to fund them better with taxpayers» money, to enable them to provide free legal services to more poor people, while the majority of the taxpayers can not obtain legal services for themselves at reasonable cost.

But for a large percentage of our aging population, a slip and fall incident may be a life changing event.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

With a total population of 7.2 million people, it is surprising to learn that only 4.5 million are in employment, but Belgium has a large percentage of the population that are either in full - time education or have retired and enjoyed the benefits of a long life in employment.

Also, we used objective approaches to quantify neighbourhood attributes that allowed us to partially control for potential reverse causality due to depressed individuals tending to exhibit negative cognitive bias resulting in negative thoughts and perceptions.65 Residential self - selection bias is likely to be a trivial source of reverse causality in this study because Hong Kong's high levels of population density (6760 people / km2) and low percentage of developed land (less than 25 %) 66 limit most residents» choice of accommodation and 37 % of Hong Kong older adults live in public rental housing.67 Given the satisfactory response rate and the level of similarity in depressive symptoms and sociodemographic characteristics of participants recruited from two types of recruitment centres, the findings from this study are likely to be generalisable to the population of Chinese Hong Kong older adults matching the study eligibility criteria and other populations of older adults living in similar ultra-dense metropolises of Southeast Asia.