Sentences with phrase «proportions of the populations in»

between 1970 and 1988, but the proportion of the population in poverty did not decrease.

Today a far larger proportion of our population in the United States are members of Christian churches than ever before in our history.

Alabama and Mississippi: the most unhealthy region (e.g., the most obese, the most with cardiovascular diseases and etc.), the highest illiteracy rate, the highest teenage pregnancy rates, the most cities ranking in the top 25 most crimes, the most likely to regect scientific facts, the least taxed, the least to be unionized thus the highest proportion of the population in poverty... and of course, the most religious....

Electorates were a relatively small proportion of the population in most constituencies, and in the case of so called «rotten boroughs», tiny.

Also shown is the proportion of population in each electorate of indigenous origin according to the 2011 Census, and the size of the swing to the Country Liberal Party at the 2008 election.

As a first step, in 2012, nations that are party to the convention will provide data on two measurable indicators: the proportion of the population in vulnerable areas living above the poverty line and the area of land covered by vegetation.

More extensive research and new interventions are needed, he adds, if we are to reach the AHA's goal of increasing the proportion of the population in ideal cardiovascular health by 2020.

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

It depicts that a major proportion of the population in India is having no coverage or under insured and thus, putting their family at a financial risk.

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.

Not exact matches

Even though they might be creating jobs merely in the single or small double digits, they are the backbone of what makes America great, considering that a sizable proportion of the working population is employed by small businesses.

The proportion of Indian - founded startups in Silicon Valley startups had increased from 7 % to 15.5 %, even though Indians make up just 6 % of the Valley's working population.

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.

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«We have fewer jobs in terms of the proportion of the potentially working population.

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In markets where homeownership has become increasingly unaffordable and unattainable for large proportions of the population, there is a clear market failure to address.

There is a limit to how many hours there are in a day that employees can work, how low the unemployment rate can go on a sustained basis, how high the labour force participation rate can rise, and how large the proportion of working - age people within the total population can be.

In particular, medical and insurance expenses make up a larger proportion of the spending of senior citizens than for the general population.

To be sure, «religious preference» is not the same as church membership or attendance, but it does depict a reality that is connected to church historian Kenneth Scott Latourette's finding that in 1961 the proportion of church members to the general population in the U.S. was the highest ever in the nation's history (Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, Vol.

From 5 % on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

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.

Scott estimates that the proportion of Mexican citizens without even a concept of the nation has declined from 90 percent in 1910 to 25 percent in 1963.44 Inasmuch as the population nearly tripled during that period, the expansion of nationalistic sentiment has been enormous.

The same principle of nonrandom selection is responsible for part of the non-Christian presence in the U.S.. For example, the population of India is about 12 percent Muslim, but because of both «push» factors in India and «pull» factors (especially economic opportunities) in the U.S., the proportion of Muslims among Indian Americans is probably higher than that for the same reasons — push and pull factors — Jews are greatly over represented among migrants from the former Soviet Union.

Indeed, a half century ago, the proportion of Jews in the U.S. population was quite a bit greater than the combined proportion of Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists today.

Catholic and mainline Protestant congregations, on the other hand, contain a smaller proportion of the church - going population than they did when baby boomers were in Sunday School.

This is evidenced by the lighter complexions of the present - day Indian in the northern parts of India where the Aryans mingled in largest proportion with the indigenous population, in contrast to the much darker complexion of southern Indians where the Aryan influence is least.

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

Only 13 percent of those using illegal drugs are African - American (exactly their proportion in the national population), but they constitute 35 percent of those arrested for simple possession and a staggering 74 percent of those sentenced for drug possession..

From 5 % +, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the 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.

The proportion of congregations in the 1960s and 1970s that actually responded as prescribed to their contexts was in fact very small.21 As neighborhood populations changed racially, some churches whose physical and financial resources lingered after their former membership fled introduced service programs to assist the poor, but the adjustment seems in most cases to have stemmed from necessity or default rather than from deliberate reorientation and restructuring by members who themselves stayed on to be transformed.

According to a survey published in September 2010 by the Office for National Statistics, the proportion of the British population who self - identify (to use the questionable modern phrase) as homosexual is around 1 \ %.

A few years ago the attitudes of white people on matters of race relations in the South could be fairly well predicted by examining a map which showed county by county the proportion of blacks to whites in the population.

A recent incomplete data sample from a compilation of plant closures in California showed that the numbers of minority people laid off exceeded whites laid off — a figure far out of proportion to racial percentages in the general population.

Contrary to that image, White Evangelical Protestants are mostly in the demographic mainstream, with only somewhat less formal education and a slightly larger proportion of poor people than the population as a whole.

Polls show that a sizable proportion of the American population agrees with Morris that scientific theories on natural origins are in conflict with revealed religion and should not be taught unless they can be supplemented by a theological corrective.

Yet two surveys of community residents in the three - county archdiocese area (one in 1972 and one in 1996) reveal a very stable Roman Catholic population and a stable proportion of Catholics who say they attended church.

A significant proportion of the country's Latino population — 57 million people and growing — have been grappling with their place in America under the new president, even though two - thirds were born here, according to Pew.

Maybe as a function of population growth, but not as a proportion of scientists versed in the relevant disciplines.

In this paper I suggest that television needs to be considered seriously as an operative religious activity for a large proportion of the Australian population.

There is still much segregation and discrimination, and even if poverty - stricken blacks are only one - third at most of all the poor in America, poor people are a much larger proportion of the black population than of the white.

Perhaps the real advantage of the relatively large proportion of elderly, singles and young couples is the consequent reduction in the project's population density.

It survived the shock and in 1911 enrolled a slightly larger proportion of the population than at the time of separation from the State.

Given the significance of this response to illness for a large proportion of the world's population, there has been considerable interest in recent years in measuring the efficacy of intercessory prayer for the alleviation of ill health in a scientifically rigorous fashion.

Financially, since there is such a large population of evangelical Christians in our society, even modest contributions from a small proportion of them can sustain fairly extensive broadcasting.

Today, as people like Richard Posner delude themselves into imagining themselves heroically overturning discrimination, gay and lesbian representation in elite institutions is substantial and probably in excess of their proportion of the overall population.

Despite food allergies affecting only a small proportion of the population, risk management and mandatory product labelling for the key food allergens are critical food safety matters for businesses in the food industry.

«Since a large proportion of vitamin A — deficient children and their mothers reside in rice - consuming populations, particularly in Asia, Golden Rice should substantially reduce the prevalence and severity of vitamin A deficiency, and prevent at least hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and cases of blindness every year,» said Dr. Alfred Sommer, professor and dean emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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.