Sentences with phrase «population by a quarter»

The simulation showed that to reduce the population by a quarter, 57 percent of the cats in a colony had to be removed by lethal means or captured, neutered and released.

«The simulation showed that to reduce the population by a quarter, 57 percent of the cats in a colony [of 200] had to be removed by lethal means or captured, neutered and released.

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Statistics Canada predicts that the proportion of seniors could, by 2031, equal the level now seen in Japan, which has the oldest population in the G7 with one - quarter of people over age 65.

Since the 1970s, membership in some local groups has declined by as much as one - quarter, cutting across all segments of the population.

Facebook may reach one - quarter of the world's population and have the revenues of a small country, but it's still, after all, a private - sector enterprise, not constrained by the First Amendment in any decisions it makes about speech limits.

Just over a quarter of Japan's population is aged 65 and over and that number is projected to rise to a third by 2035, according to Japanese government data.

Its products are physically touched by nearly one - quarter of the world's population every day, according to the company.

By 2020, half of China's digital shoppers — or more than a quarter of the country's population of about 1.4 billion — will be buying foreign products online, eMarketer estimates, with total sales of $ 157.7 billion.

In Poland, however, to take the largest Jewish population center, although there was a Jewish middle class, the per capita income of Jews in the 1930s was less than $ 100 per year, and a quarter of Poland's Jews were kept from starvation only by charity from America.

This shift was amplified by the Evangelicals» steady religious market share since 1960 (about one - quarter of the population) and consistent conservatism on social and foreign policy issues — a conservatism that gave evidence of expanding to include traditional Republican economic issues.

This has everything to do with strategic and pastoral planning, reflecting the fact that Latinos constitute at least a quarter of the more than sixty million Catholics in the U.S., and some expect they will be half the Catholic population by the middle of the century.

Industrialized countries with less than a quarter of the world's population are responsible for about three - quarters of the carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels.

If replacement reproduction for the developed world as a whole had begun in the 1980s, the population would still increase by more than a quarter, adding some 300 million more people.

Dried red pepper is the one of the most widely consumed spices in the world, eaten daily by one - quarter of the world's population.

There were lots of speeches about what the Irish contributed to life in New York City, particularly when you consider by 1850, the Irish made up a quarter of the city's population.

Many here, particularly the quarter of the population that is black, view the ethics charges as an attempt by scandal - tainted lawmakers to shift attention away from themselves and toward Rangel.

The agency says violent crime is also declining, and the overall prison population has shrunk by one quarter since a high point in 1999.

By 2036, seniors aged 65 years and older could represent a quarter of the total Canadian population, and one sixth of the global population.

The meta - analysis of findings from 15 studies by the European Eye Epidemiology Consortium found that around a quarter of the European population is short - sighted but it is nearly twice as common in younger people, with almost half (47 per cent) of the group aged between 25 and 29 years affected.

In the 1950s about one third of the world's population lived in cities, by the second decade of the new millennium this proportion had risen to about one half and it is projected that by 2050, almost three - quarters of us will live in urban, rather than rural or other, areas.

Over the past quarter century, G20 carbon dioxide emissions had risen by almost 50 percent while per capita emissions had gained by about 18 percent, reflecting population growth, it said.

Indeed, variations of this alphabet are now used by three - quarters of the world's population.

In 2007, the United Nations predicted an explosion in urban populations, which it said could be as much as the three - quarters of the world population by 2050, mostly residing in developing countries.

Furthermore, that was done by a nation with barely more than half the population and one quarter the GNP of America today.

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).

The Bureau of Census claims that by the year 2050 a full quarter of the U.S. population will be of Latino origin — that is, nearly 100 million people tracing their ancestry to the Spanish - speaking, Latin American, and Caribbean worlds.

Latino students are the fastest - growing population in America's public schools; by 2020, fully a quarter of public school students are expected to be Latino.

Since 2000, Charlotte has increased its population by over 40 percent, to more than three quarters of a million people.

Between 2005 and 2013, the city's population grew by about a quarter - million people — but our overall energy consumption stayed essentially the same.

The raise of the level of the sea, for example, could create situations of extreme gravity when taking into account that a quarter of the world population lives by the sea or very close to it, and that most megacities are located in coastal areas.

The latest figures from the UN show that three - quarters of the population are forced to survive in absolute poverty on less than one dollar a day; over 30 % of all children die before reaching the age of five and one child now dies of preventable diseases and malnutrition every three minutes (480 every day); overall life expectancy is a mere 45 years and almost a third of the country's population has been displaced by the conflict (some four million civilians).

A paper written by Benjamin Franklin in 1783 blamed the unusually cool summer of 1783 on volcanic dust coming from Iceland, where the eruption of Laki volcano had released enormous amounts of sulfur dioxide, resulting in the death of much of the island's livestock and a catastrophic famine which killed a quarter of the Icelandic population.

IPCC estimates tell us now that by 2080 an extra 1.8 billion — equal to a quarter of the world's current population — could be living and dying without enough water.

Overall, ten of India's 29 states and 330 million people — a quarter of India's population — have been affected in 2016 by a combination of failed rains, contaminated supplies, and water mismanagement.

Although the amounts paid out may vary because of inflation and changes in the percentage of the population who smoke, the total payout to the states during the first 25 years covered by the settlements (1998 — 2023) will be approximately a quarter of a trillion dollars.

Since 2000, Charlotte has increased its population by over 40 percent, to more than three quarters of a million people.

That's enough to equip nearly a quarter of the Earth's population with NFC, and analysts estimate that the NFC market will continue to grow 17.9 percent over the next decade, reaching nearly $ 50 billion by 2025.

A quarter of the population is minority, represented largely by a Hispanic segment comprising nearly 15 percent of the city's total.

According to the Population Reference Bureau website, by 2016, people over 65 will comprise nearly a quarter of the population.

The high rate of substance abuse, especially alcohol abuse, has its roots in many traumatic events that have crossed generations among Native Americans and Alaska Natives, including a devastating population loss from an estimated 4.4 to 12.25 million people before European settlement of the Americas to a quarter million by 1900.

Well, by 2030, it's expected that one - quarter of the U.S. population will be age 50 or older, according to a recent study by The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.

«Using standard assumptions regarding immigration, fertility and mortality rates, the share of Canada's population growth coming from immigration could rise to three - quarters a decade from now, up from 60 - 65 per cent today and almost all by 2030.

Millennials — those born between 1982 and 2000 — account for one quarter of the U.S. population, and they will represent 75 % of the American workforce by 2025.