Sentences with phrase «proportion of the population now»

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.

Not exact matches

Statistics Canada predicts that the proportion of seniors could, by 2031, equal the level now seen in Japan, which has the oldest population in the G7 with one - quarter of people over age 65.

Later students of the subject, including Kinsey's successors, are now inclined to include most of the men ranked at five and some of those at four in the blanket category «homosexual,» which of course considerably raises the predominantly homosexual proportion of the male population.

The most significant deductions from these figures are, first, that more than half of the people of the United States are now members of religious bodies — in the neighborhood of 58 per cent — and second, that growth in church membership reveals a steady increase, not only numerically but in proportion to the general population.

Similarly, Cathy Warwick, on being confronted by the reality that there are not enough staff and equipment to provide care for women in labor now declares that what midwives women really need is access to a specialized service that is appropriate for only a tiny proportion of the population and represents a dreadfully inefficient use of scarce resources.

Until now, changes in the relative proportion of rare mutations, that could be both detrimental and adaptive, had only been shown over relatively long timescales, by comparing African and European populations.

«More attention should be paid to the safety of ART offspring as they now account for the large proportion of the population,» says He - Feng Huang, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Affiliated Women's Hospital and Zhejiang University School of Medicine in China.

Any reforms to come from the process, starting next week, would affect about 62 percent of New York state's population, the proportion estimated to reside now in areas that could be hard hit as rising land and ocean temperatures raise average sea levels around the globe.

You'll find that ice more than 3 meters thick now forms an insignificant proportion of the total population.

They now stand at 23 % of the population aged 16 and older — nearly an identical proportion to the number of people who say they now own either a tablet or e-reading device.

The mineral wealth of the region in particular attracted immigrants from Chile, and Chileans seeking temporary work rather than a fixed domicile now constitute the largest proportion of the population.

«The paper also focuses much attention on the potential for increases in polar bear attacks on humans due to sea ice loss (blamed on global warming) but ignores totally the increased risk stemming from the larger proportion of adult males that now exist in protected populations.»

This shift is shown by the proportion of all ACORN - SAT sites that were located in built areas (regardless of population) having decreased from around 70 % in 1930 to 10 % now (Figure 8).

The two previous reviews, both of which mostly exonerated the unit, were immediately identified as part of the ever - widening conspiracy (it now involves a fair proportion of the world's population).

More than half of the world's population now lives in cities; by 2040 the proportion of urbanites is expected to reach 70 percent, adding urgency to the urban heat island problem.

It then pushed on into the now - standard arm - mounted trackers and, admittedly, put out a device, the Fitbit Force, that appeared to give a larger than acceptable proportion of the world's population a nasty rash.