Sentences with phrase «proportion of the population»

In many states, and especially in cities, large proportions of the population live in apartment buildings, condos, or other buildings with multiple tenants.

Today many Mayan people still live in these areas, making up significant proportions of the populations in some regions.

Nevertheless, a small proportion of the population continues to deny the science.

A significant proportion of the population does not eat fruit or vegetables on a daily basis at all.

Is it the case that the richer you are, the higher proportion of your population are in work?

So, the conclusion seems to be that a substantial proportion of the population is ready for online supported dispute resolution services and is enthusiastic about using them.

People are getting infected at younger ages and in greater proportions of the population than ever before.

Visitors add an enormous value to our province, even when they make up a tiny proportion of the population.

Construction and building industry employs a considerable proportion of population under its varied employment venues.

Currently, a rapidly growing proportion of the population have limited rights or ability to access support if their relationship breaks down.

A lot are too scared to say anything, and a huge huge proportion of the population sees it as futile to do anything about it.

This modest change is realistic, affordable, and achievable because a sizable proportion of their population was already eating that way.

In 1984, 2010 and 2012 there were massive die - offs, but none of these claimed such a massive proportion of the population.

A large proportion of the population base is that of students due to the abundance of higher education facilities in the city.

While these countries all have many families that function on the very highest level, a too - significant proportion of their populations desperately need healthy parenting and marriage education.

A very large proportion of the population is affected by serious genetic defects.

Given that a small proportion of the population is homosexual, prospective studies require a large number of children.

Anything that kills a significant proportion of a population has the potential to bring about very fast evolution.

While children constitute a small proportion of the population with diabetes, omitting productivity loss associated with diabetes among children will tend to bias low the cost estimates.

«But you have large proportions of the population who don't have access to those services.»

These countries have both large proportions of their populations living in absolute poverty and good survey data to ground truth any predictions made by the computer.

«The development of China's healthcare industry is still in its infancy, evidenced by its low healthcare expenditure as a percentage of GDP... and a smaller proportion of its population aged 60 and over,» DBS analysts Mark Kong and Chris Gao said in a recent note.

By drawing on previous studies, Dietz estimated what proportion of the population could realistically be persuaded to change their behaviour using financial incentives, mass - media campaigns and so forth.

And you'll find that when people crunch those numbers that way they a) include famines, which is ridiculous, and b) ignore the relative sizes of the countries involved (you need to look at proportion of population affected, especially when talking about the world's largest countries).

In Asia - Pacific, SES Networks signed and implemented an important new network with mu Space, delivering reliable and affordable connectivity for a significant increase in mobile and WiFi coverage in Thailand, where only a small proportion of the population currently has broadband access, as well as extending and substantially expanding business with Palau Telecom on the O3b fleet as part of its 4G implementation plans.

In fact, the city has a bigger proportion of its population employed in the computer and electronics industry than any other city in the country.

In Ceylon, under Portuguese rule of part of the island a substantial proportion of the population accepted the faith.

I can understand how this kind of story sells papers by the million and I understand that this is how the The Sun and The News of the World and the Daily Mirror operate, hell I even understand that to a very large extent they do so because that is what a large proportion of the population wants to read, sick as it might sound there are people who really get off on this stuff.

A large proportion of the population believe that the system is rigged and the odds are stacked against them, but their feelings are often fatalistic.

It indicates that a non-trivial proportion of the population say that they agree with the policy.

A 2000 study found that the economically active proportion of the population across the EU was just 69 per cent, around 77 million adults.

The urbanized societies of today, in contrast, not only have urban agglomerations of a size never before attained but also have a high proportion of their population concentrated in such agglomerations.

Greater proportions of the populations molted to white in higher latitudes.

The declining rate of growth in health care expenditure in the USA during this period is especially striking because, unlike the other five countries studied, during this period the USA started major reforms to expand health care coverage to a wider proportion of the population.

This was accomplished by analyzing genotypic data from more than 11,000 adult volunteers — representing a significant proportion of the population suffering from severe obesity.

This endless daily assault on our bodies, including our precious DNA, has resulted in an overwhelming proportion of the population falling victim to serious degenerative disease, increasingly at EARLIER ages, and / or spending the final chapters of their lives totally dependent on pharmaceutical drugs to stay alive!

Split Squat — Quite often the Squat is a movement that should not be loaded for a high proportion of the population due to common pelvic instability or insufficient mobility of the ankle, hip or thoracic regions.

Dinesh Moorjani, co-founder of Tinder and CEO of Hatch Labs Inc. where Tinder was created, says that another reason lesbian dating apps may have failed to prosper could be that investors don't see that 3.4 percent of America as a large enough market to tackle (never mind that gay and bi men make up about the same proportion of the population as gay and bi women, and Grindr has 10 times the users of Her).

In these countries, the standards are much more demanding than the Common Core State Standards because they have a far lower proportion of the population studying mathematics in upper secondary school.

The words «which have led to an insufficient proportion of our population educated in science, mathematics, and modern language and trained in technology» were deleted, as was the reference to giving preference in student loans to those preparing to teach and those with superior capacity in mathematics, science, engineering, or a modern foreign language.

Since 1970 a larger proportion of the population make much more than the median, which is sufficient to point out that there is likely to be a bigger difference in perception of «a lot» now than back then.

There is also a greater proportion of the population now that earns more than 2.5 X as much as the median - about 11 % of households in 2014 - which suggests perceptions of what is «a lot of money» will vary more now than it would have in 1970.

The only thing you can conclude about the population is: The actual proportion of the population that believes that there is global warming and most of it is caused by humans is somewhere in the interval [0.137,0.874].

Dr John Reid, a former Swinburne University academic, gave a lecture on ABC radio recommending we «put something in the water, a virus that would be specific to the human reproductive system, and would make a substantial proportion of the population infertile».