Sentences with phrase «population is rural»

Over 80 % of Uganda's population is rural and dependent on rain fed agriculture, which is prone to impacts of climate variability.

Contrast this with Malawi, where 79 % of the population is rural, and agriculture makes up 49 % of GDP.

The remaining half of the population was rural.

Not exact matches

«The Taliban is a much larger organization, controls roughly 10 - 12 % of the population of Afghanistan, has conducted a lot more attacks, and has some support among Afghanistan's conservative rural population,» Jones said.

This incredible journey was made possible by a massive population shift from rural to urban, which in turn was facilitated by the unprecedented expansion in manufacturing and international trade in China, a country that steadfastly ignored the entire MDG process.

We don't know where those people are; Rural counties are incentivized to overreport population to receive more benefits from higher levels of government, while city districts report lower figures to hit population control targets.

According to Parikh, 10 % of the world's population live in these rural areas — found in certain regions in Africa and India, among others — and are unable to access the web.

In addition, populations are dwindling faster in the suburban and rural areas.

Exposure to pollution is associated with the increasing population of cities, but people who live in rural areas are also at risk.

These bad - news boiler rooms use the world's cheapest labor to reach a terribly skewed (and largely screwed) population of old, rural and homebound people who are also the only ones with the time and any interest in talking to them.

But the agency said the latest proposed steps are meant to further alleviate the rules» effects on community institutions and rural populations.

«We expect countries with young populations, supportive regulations and fast mobile Internet speeds and planned migration to 5G to be best positioned,» says Graseck, adding that banks serving urban populations may have more latitude to consolidate branches than those focused on rural populations.

Flexible work is a proven solution for helping the rural population gain access to valuable employment options.

Wyoming has a small and largely rural population, but its highest earners are in the oil, gas and minerals extraction industries.

And I don't even live in a particularly rural area, in fact I live in town, just not many jobs, particularly not after the economy tanked (not much population density, but compared to some areas in the states we are packed).

Serving farmers, horse owners, ranchers and rural populations, the company's stock price success was propelled by new store openings and improving products.

Generally, cities and towns with a population less than 20,000 qualify, but bigger cities are eligible if they are «rural in character» or don't have good access to mortgage credit.

What was once considered a rural area might now be a significant population center.

Beale Code 9 is «Nonmetro - Completely rural or less than 2,500 urban population, not adjacent to a metro area.»

First, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural - Urban scale (also called Beale Codes), from 1, for counties in metropolitan areas with 1 million or more in population through 9, for counties where there is no community larger than 2,500 and the county is not adjacent to a metropolitan area.

The initiative process and the Constitution Revision Commission, which is appointed every 20 years, owe their existence to a grossly unrepresentative Legislature that was controlled by rural counties with fewer than 20 percent of Florida's population.

That and the shrinking rural population (where the peer pressure is much greater) has a lot to do with it.

Gradually the population was shifting from rural to urban settings, and the meaning and nature of work was being defined in a secular context.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

Eliade explains Cosmic Christianity of the rural population as being dominated by «nostalgia for a Nature sanctified by the presence of Jesus».

Urban churches grew and prospered as a result of that population movement; but the rural ethos continued to be reflected in worship, organization and mission priorities.

The plight of the rural poor constitutes a crisis rapidly being made worse by corporate - led globalization, which offers significant benefit to only about 20 percent of the world's population.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics calculate that the current population of rural England is 9.3 million, and that it continues to grow by around 50,000 people each year.

Small rural towns have been decimated, while the population of urban slums and sprawling suburbs has greatly increased.

With this rising population and the lack of radical reform in most underdeveloped countries, particularly in the rural communities where the large masses of these people live, the world food crisis will recur when again the crops are less favorable; the danger is that it will then gradually take on an ever more permanent and disastrous dimension.

In place of the prevailingly rural economy to which, through the parish system, the Church had adapted itself, mining and manufacturing towns were rapidly emerging and the populations of existing cities were mounting and were outgrowing or making anachronistic the ecclesiastical structures of earlier days.

«We are a country with a large territory but small population, which makes distribution costly and difficult, especially in the rural areas where there is great potential,» Vallejo explains.

Such certifications (PGI) by the European Union promote the development of specific rural regions and populations, which are related to agricultural products with special quality characteristics and protect the interests of both growers and consumers.

Shane McIntyre, national director of rural and agribusiness at Colliers International, said there were numerous factors that would «ensure the future of beef in the medium term» including an insatiable global appetite for protein, population growth and a wealthier world.

Even with strong expansion of the country's middle class, a large proportion of India's population remains poor, and being able to afford products is still a major concern for many in the rural economy.

Another option proposed for the area was afforestation, but in view of the high density of rural population and the fertile soils this was dismissed and another alternative was sought.

Apart from the handful who were born in Ashland, they'd moved from Homer or Chicago or Coronado Island, in the first or third or ninth grade, reared in trailers or at friends» houses or in homes with hot tubs, the sons of teachers and attorneys and single mothers who had chosen to go back - to - the - land in a small town: population 15,000, liberal and rural, five crowded elementary schools.

Compounding the problem is the fact that the most desirable hunting areas — rural acreage near population centers — are most affected by the trend toward posting.

It's rural and mostly flat and holds a steady population of about 4,500.

Moreover, our intervention sites were hospitals and affiliated polyclinics matched on a number of characteristics including geographical region and urban vs rural status, and the study sample is representative of general population of Belarus.

Further support is drawn from the population - mixing theory that an excess of childhood leukemia has been found in rural, potentially immunologically naive, populations that have undergone an influx of permanent residents.8 - 12

Given the structural damage caused by the earthquake to water supply systems, there is an additional risk of water borne diseases affecting large numbers of the urban, rural and displaced populations.

This is due to the fact that rural voters tend to be more conservative, and are perhaps, over-represented strictly based on population.

This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.

Orphanages are located in urban centers; orphans and abandoned children in rural areas (who account for around 85 % of the total orphan population) do not have access to these state - run institutions.

That shift benefits downstate, largely Democratic districts, at the expense of upstate senate seats held by GOP members, where the inmates were used to bolster population numbers in the primarily rural districts.

Rural communities are much more likely than urban populations to talk about the desire to keep their communities rooted, for there to be opportunities for their children to live and work close to where their parents live.

Studies of environmental consciousness tend to focus on urban middle classes, giving the false impression that rural populations are either unaffected, do not know or do not care.

Engaging in a dialogue with rural populations on the ground is key.

The region is a mix of rural and urban areas, with the population higher in the east, where can be found the region's largest town, Wrexham, and the working - class conurbations of Deeside.