Sentences with phrase «population live on less»

And yet almost 70 per cent of Nigeria's population live on less than a dollar a day, and 15 per cent of Nigerian children die before their fifth birthday.

And when the disease gets out of control because most of the population live on less than one dollar a day?

About 13.5 percent of Cambodia's population lives on less than $ 2 a day, according to the World Bank.

Data shows that over 78 % of the population survives on less than US$ 2.0 a day whereas 30 % of the population lives on less still — less than a...

With two billion of the world's population living on less than $ 2 a day, alleviating crushing poverty and the health, social and environmental ills that accompany it, is everyone's moral responsibility.

And with large segments of the developing world without access to modern forms of energy, Mr. Annan says that meeting the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving, by 2015, the proportion of the world's population living on less than $ 1 a day would depend on providing these people with access to modern energy services for their basic needs and for income generation.

As the meager contributions to the GCF demonstrate, it's difficult to address climate change when 80 percent of the global population lives on less than $ 10 per day.

In South Africa 12 % of the population lives on less than $ 2 a day.

This belief brought me to Nicaragua, the 2nd poorest country in the western hemisphere with 46 % of the population living on less than 2 dollars a day.

Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the western hemisphere, and nearly half of the population lives on less than 2 dollars a day, while at the same time the nation is experiencing a serious deforestation problem, with some 21 % of the country's forest cover being destroyed between 1990 and 2005, and although that rate has slowed somewhat, it's still losing 1 % of its forests each year.

Sunlabob Rural Energy Rents Out Solar PV Systems Such a model is now being employed with success in Laos to bring a variety of solar products to a country where 74 % of the population lives on less than $ 2 per day, and only 48 % are connected to the electric grid.

Half of the world's population lives on less than $ 2 a day.

According to the Human Development Indices of 2009, more than one - quarter of its population lives on less than $ 1.25 per day.

Not exact matches

If the latest study on the subject by UNESCO (in 1953) is still valid, less than 10 percent of the world's population lives in countries the press of which has available to it both the western wire services and that of TASS.

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 1970On 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 1970on more meaning when it is recognized that 90 % of American families lived on incomes of less than $ 13,000 after taxes in 1970on incomes of less than $ 13,000 after taxes in 1970.6

If we see an «80 % reduction in world poverty in only 36 years, from 26.8 % of the world's population living on $ 1 or less in 1970 to only 5.4 % in 2006.»

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 its millennial report on poverty, the World Bank reveals that 24 percent of the population in developing nations live — or struggle to live — in absolute poverty, on less than one dollar a day.

More than half of El Salvador's population lives in rural areas, working on farms of less than 3 ha.

Launching the campaign, BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «Despite over half the population in the UK describing themselves as non religious, humanist perspectives on life's big questions are still far less available to the public than religious ones.

Despite over half the population in the UK describing themselves as non religious, humanist perspectives on life's big questions are still far less available to the public than religious ones.

India's research agenda is very heavily driven by the government, and one of the government's main ambitions is to meet the vast needs of a country where 300 million people — roughly the population of the United States — live on less than US$ 1 a day.

«But they also tend to have less stringent environmental protections and denser populations, so consumer savings, corporate profits and economic development based on trade are costing the lives of people who have to breathe polluted air.»

By the turn of the new millennium, half the population of Africa, about 340 million people, still lived on less than US$ 1 per day.

«With 10 per cent of the world's population, or 700 million people, living less than 10 metres above present sea level, an additional three metres of sea level rise from the Antarctic alone will have a profound impact on us all.»

The left column shows how the world's population can be split into different income groups, including those living on: less than $ 1.90 a day (green); between $ 1.90 and $ 2.97 a day (blue); between $ 2.97 and $ 8.44 (yellow); between $ 8.44 and $ 23.03 a day (purple); and more than $ 23.03 a day (orange).

«Blue Zones» by Dan Buettner is less scientific but really interesting because it focused on what different populations who live the longest around the world eat (I'll give you a hint, there wasn't a ton of meat, cheese or milk in those diets!).

Consider the Kuna Indians, who live on islands off of Panama — one of the healthiest populations on Earth; 20 times less heart disease compared to us; 20 times less cancer.

However, even though she is certainly treated as an equal in the estate, Dido lives in a Georgian England where the economy is still very much dependant on the slave trade, where less than a third of the black population is free, and where her mere presence at the after - dinner recitals in her own home can cause looks of shock and bewilderment from the distinguished guests.

After having worked for three months at a school that provided education for the most elite of Haiti's population, I knew that I had to expand my efforts to reach the other 80 percent of Haiti, the people that live on less than $ 2 a day.

On the other hand, the term «refugee» refers to people who have to flee their countries due to an imminent threat to their lives such as armed conflicts, persecution, and / or natural disasters, and hence are more likely to be representative of, or even less advantaged and more marginalized than, the general population in their countries of origin.

In Mexico nearly 10 % of the population live in what the World Bank defines as extreme poverty — subsisting on an average daily consumption of $ 1.25 or less.

Kevin: On one hand, the population is, in terms of skills, less equipped than ever before to live without the accustomed technological infrastructure.

On one hand, the population is, in terms of skills, less equipped than ever before to live without the accustomed technological infrastructure.

Most important, it means reducing demand by slowing population growth and, for those of us already living high on the food chain, eating less meat, milk, eggs, and fish.

With 2.5 billion people living on less than $ 2 a day and with more than two billion people being added to the global population by 2050, it is clear that we must continue to develop and grow our economies.

Despite efforts to address poverty, more than a third of the world's population still live on less than $ 2 per day.

The growth of the ecological footprint of a human population about to increase from 7B now to 9B in 2050 raises serious concerns about how to live both more efficiently and with less permanent impacts on the finite world.

Despite global population growth and economic crisis, absolute poverty — the proportion of people living on less than $ 1.25 a day — is falling in every region of the world.

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).

But unlike his previous journeys, this one was less about whiteouts and dogs and more about the remote Inuit population living on the edge of the Arctic.

Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45

3 The fact is that in many countries (such as Canada, Japan, and many European nations) with equitable, population - wide access to medical care, not only do people live longer, healthier lives than in the U.S., but less money (per capita) is spent on both health care and biomedical research.

«Massive increases in energy consumption would be necessary to alleviate poverty for the nearly 50 % of the world's population who live on less than $ 2.50 a day,» Wagner said.

Thirty years to establish a climate state seems a long time, as within that period there may be notable shifts to a number of different prevailing patterns of cold / warmth / wet or drought that, on a human scale affects agriculture and horticulture by impacting on what crops may be grown successfully, may affect the tourism season, may cause a consumer to use more or less energy in their home, and also impact on nature by affecting the populations of wild life and vegetation.

While Mali's per capita GDP stands above 1,000 US - Dollars per year, about three quarters of the population actually live on less than one US - Dollar per day.

While it's important not to overstate the case — again, improved health care can be a double - edged sword, if people are able to live longer because of it but at greater financial cost — one way to interpret this study is that if more people are not economically old, that is they are still contributing to society on their own and not collecting pension or requiring increased health care, there is less burden on falling population levels from an otherwise aging population.

In the early 1980s, 88 % of the population were living on less than US$ 2 a day, compared with 11 % in 2014.

In the 2050s, differences in the population projections of the four SRES scenarios would have a greater impact on the number of people living in water - stressed river basins (defined as basins with per capita water resources of less than 1,000 m3 / year) than the differences in the emissions scenarios (Arnell, 2004b).

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