Sentences with phrase «population centers of the country»

Due largely to the latter, the Northwest Valley of Phoenix is one of the fastest - aging population centers of the country.

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Use multiple data centers positioned throughout China, and don't underestimate the size of the country and scale of the population.

In many of the underdeveloped countries, a big part of the population lives outside of urban centers and has no easy access to a Banking infrastructure.

The second largest country by population, mobile phone users, smartphone users, and internet users, India is once again at the center of attraction for the management of the world's most influential online platform.

A comprehensive demographic study of more than 230 countries and territories conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life estimates that there are 5.8 billion religiously affiliated adults and children around the globe, representing 84 % of the 2010 world population of 6.9 billion.

Talk about destroying the population centers of other countries springs from a combination of fatalism and callousness.

Hungary, before Hitler, was also one of the centers of world Jewry, Jews accounting for 5 percent of the country's population.

She is always heading off somewhere: striking out on British Army or scientific expeditions to remote portions of the Belizean jungles; roaring up the Western Highway to Belmopan, the capital city, where her opinions are solicited with frequency by government ministers (she is now an official — albeit unpaid — land and resources adviser); or careering into Belize City, the country's population center, for a high - society cocktail party.

In Africa alone, the continent with the highest fertility rate and lowest use of modern contraceptives, 26 countries will double their population by 2050, according to the U.N. «Fundamentally if you're looking at World Population Day, it is at heart a women's rights issue,» said Roger - Mark DeSouza director of population, environmental security and resilience at the non-partisan policy Wilson Center, based in Washington, D.C. World Population Day is meant to draw attention to the challenges we face with a human population that is constantly growing.

A portable detector would greatly aid efforts to fight the infection in developing countries, particularly parts of Asia and Africa where as much as 40 percent of the population carries the microbe, says Robert Belknap, a physician and TB expert at the Denver Health Medical Center in Colorado.

As birth rates decline in countries that include parts of Europe and East Asia, threatening the economic slowdown associated with aging populations, a global study from the University of California, Berkeley, and the East - West Center in Hawaii suggests that in much of the world, it actually pays to have fewer children.

«This study is significant because the intervention was done in the home and did not require the infrastructure of a center - based intervention, making it feasible for low - resource populations and middle - low - income countries to implement.»

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.

In the US, the multicultural demographic comprises over a third of the population, and their spending power is growing more quickly than the country's average, per a study by the Selig Center for Economic Growth at the University of Georgia.

With a population of 2,562,828, it is Turkeys fourth largest city, as well as one of the most industrialized and culturally charged metropolitan centers in the country.

Poznań, specifically, a city with a population of around half a million in the western center of the country.

With a population of 20.7 million, Shanghai is the largest city in China and the country's business center.

«Our new state - of - the - art Center in the heart of Manhattan will demonstrate to locals and visitors alike the problems and solutions facing our country's homeless pet population,» said Gregory Castle, ceo and Co-Founder of Best Friends Animal Society.

The population initially centered on the shipping towns in the north and then pushed inward in both a spirit of exploration and an attempt to make their country more defensible against attack.

The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary is recognized regularly as an ecologically significant place with tremendous biodiversity, but which is also in close proximity to the greater Los Angeles area - one of the largest human population centers in the country.

The total population of the country is approximately 250,000 with the major commercial center being Belize City, population 80,000.

But as the largest population center in the country it is the commercial capital and the place to do business and connect to other areas of this Caribbean Destination.

The subdivisions of countries vary, but every country has population centers such as towns or cities.

Of course these figures are based on reality in the UK, where distances between population centers are much shorter than in many other countries — but it's enough to get your average gas station owner nervous.

Prior to joining UCS in 2005, Ms. Spanger - Siegfried was an associate scientist at the U.S. Center of the Stockholm Environment Institute, where for six years her work focused on understanding and building the adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations and sectors in developing countries in response to climate change.

The escalating warmth in the Arctic disrupts atmospheric circulation, with global ripple effects, «especially across the industrialized countries and population centers of the Northern Hemisphere,» according to some climate scientists meeting this week in Washington, D.C., at a conference about the connections between the Arctic and mid-latitude weather.

While majorities in several countries doubt that climate change is caused by human beings, and while roughly half the population tends to be right - of - center, in most newsrooms the climate skeptic perspective — and the conservative perspective — remains significantly underrepresented.

Rice has been involved in a number of humanitarian pursuits (the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and in creating and serving on the board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation — endeavors to increase aid to developing countries and the worlds poorest, most disadvantaged populations — and serving as a member of the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center).

And just as heating anomalies in the tropics can influence weather around the globe, large heating anomalies in the Arctic basin may have ripple effects at lower latitudes, especially across the industrialized countries and population centers of the Northern Hemisphere.

UNEP News Center: With a population of 140 million, Bangladesh is one of the world's most populated countries.

For example, if you're volunteering in central Africa, this coverage could make the difference between being transported to a hospital in a major population center of your volunteer - site country, being transported to a hospital in a more developed nearby country such as South Africa, or being transported back to a hospital in your home country.

The country may only have a population of 8 million, but its technological and financial center, Tel Aviv, is home to three Bitcoin - accepting restaurants and a rapidly growing number of startups, and is arguably the birthplace of a Bitcoin technology that has seen a considerable amount of attention in the past few weeks: colored coins.

The country may only have a population of 8 million, but its technological and financial center,...

Probation officers are in demand in almost every geographic area of the country, specifically in higher population centers.

The way inventory is carried to all these large population centers is typically through the middle of the country.»