Sentences with phrase «population lacks access»

Currently, around 15 percent of the world's population lacks access to electricity, mostly in rural areas of the developing world, where providing power infrastructure is more challenging.

-- Nell Fox, Seattle, WA Today fully one - sixth of the world's human population lacks access to clean drinking water, and more than two million people — mostly kids — die each year from water - borne diseases.

In Rwanda and Burundi, more than one in four rural residents have no access to an improved water source; in Kenya, nearly half the rural population lacks access.

Factors considered in the health survey include infant mortality rates, teen birth rates, the percentage of population not covered by health insurance, per - capita expenditures for health care, percent of population lacking access to primary medical care, childhood immunization rates, and percentage of adults who smoke.

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But instead of bringing expansive, overwhelming menus to people in smaller cities, Good Uncle wants to cook and sell just a few items from the world's most iconic restaurants — the two most popular salads from a place like Sweetgreen, for example, or the most popular pizza from Roberta's in Brooklyn — in smaller, non-NFL cities, like New Haven or Syracuse, places that have dense populations but lack easy access to great food.

As many developed countries have brought almost their entire populations online, Google is keen to help connect the future of its Internet users who lack access to the Internet.

Their experience overseas broadened their awareness of large populations of people who lack access to good medical care.

Lack of support for poor and single - parent families, lack of access to programs like free or affordable childcare, a growing preoccupation with population control, and the continuing dependence on international aid organizations that supported orphanages in South Korea, all contributed to the growth of international adoptions well beyond the crisis of the Korean War perLack of support for poor and single - parent families, lack of access to programs like free or affordable childcare, a growing preoccupation with population control, and the continuing dependence on international aid organizations that supported orphanages in South Korea, all contributed to the growth of international adoptions well beyond the crisis of the Korean War perlack of access to programs like free or affordable childcare, a growing preoccupation with population control, and the continuing dependence on international aid organizations that supported orphanages in South Korea, all contributed to the growth of international adoptions well beyond the crisis of the Korean War period.

Yes, a big of the reason for our higher maternal mortality rate is general health of the population, which is associated with some other reasons: poverty and lack of access to care.

According to the FCC's 2015 report, using this updated service benchmark means that approximately 55 million Americans — 17 percent of the total population — lack access to advanced broadband.

But nearly half the population in rural Africa can not access such services because of a lack of local infrastructure.

For the more than two - thirds of Africa's sub-Saharan population that lacks access to electricity, even the most mundane tasks can be difficult or even deadly.

During extreme heat in India, the populations that were reported to perish in highest numbers were the very poor, elderly, outdoor laborers and homeless, likely with preexisting health problems and a lack of access to relief

The number of people who lack access to clean water has been cut nearly in half since 2000, though at 550 million, or around 8 percent of the world's population, there is still much room for improvement.

Washington, D.C., June 22, 2010 — In response to the lack of evaluative data on many college access programs, The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education (The Pell Institute), in partnership with the Institute for Higher Education Policy's (IHEP) Pathways to College Network, has launched the «Evaluation Toolkit» to help increase the effectiveness of college access programs that serve disadvantaged student populations.

The library is based in a predominately Hispanic, low - income neighborhood, where 75 % of the population lacks Internet access, yet that's precisely why the $ 2.4 million facility was built there, said County Judge Nelson Wolff, who envisioned it when he had an epiphany after reading the life story of Apple founder Steve Jobs.

But about 110.6 million people still lacked electricity in 2014, as urban population growth had offset access gains.

More than half the global population — about 4.5 billion people — lack access to proper sanitation services.

Water is scarce during the dry season, and at least 50 % of the population lack adequate access to safe drinking water.

Lack of access to electricity is a problem that affects 1.3 billion people worldwide and 3 % of the Mexican population, more than 3 million people (National Census).

The International Energy Agency estimates that more than 1.2 billion people, or 14 percent of the world's population, lack access to electricity, and twice that many, 2.6 billion, live without clean cooking facilities.

Three - quarters of the global population uses just 10 percent of the world's energy, 1 billion people lack access to electricity, and 3 billion cook their food over dung, wood, and charcoal, leading to millions of early deaths.

The Left dissembles while, «even today,» says Menton,, «over 1.2 billion people, 20 % of the world's population, lack access to electricity.»

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), more than 1.3 billion people, nearly one fifth of the world population, lack access to electricity.

In the West African nation of Togo, more than half of the population live below the poverty line, and a large number of the population lack reliable access to education, healthcare, electricity, and clean or safe drinking water.

World Water Council President, Benedito Braga underlines the importance of immediate action in order to achieve the sanitation target of SDG6, stating, «Although concerted efforts have been made to improve access to the most basic forms of sanitation, one third of the world's population still lacks it.

Sadly, Nigeria has yet to attain this goal and the effect of this is still being felt in lack of access to basic needs, poverty and deprivation that is still felt by a large portion of Nigeria's population.

In spite of the lack of a comprehensive study in Canada to determine: (1) the full range of apps available; (2) what they purport to do; and, (3) whether they can actually improve access to justice, there is a substantial population of law society, commercial, academic, and independent, keen advocates of apps as being the way to the solution to the problem, including displacing some lawyers.

Studies show that about 80 percent of the indigent population and more than half of the middle class in the U.S. lack access to legal services.

There is a huge amount going on in the Access to Justice world, which lacks the resources to meet the needs of its service population without effective use of technology.

According to Richard Steele, lack of access to family planning and the resultant population problems were «the root of all evil.»

The inquiry noted that Indigenous people make up a high proportion of the population in regional and remote districts with around 1,200 discrete Indig enous communities of which over 1,000 were very small and very isolated communities.61 Limited commercial opportunities and viable labour markets in these communities means that they often lack some of the most basic services, including access to banking and financial services and institutions.