Sentences with phrase «proportions of their populations living»

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 report stated that China had done well at raising life expectancy, adult literacy and access to higher education, though work remained in other sectors, such as adjusting the proportion of the population living in the countryside.

In the 2000s, ECLAC (ECLAC, 2000) evidenced that the economic achievements reached by the region in the first half of the 90s were translated, for the first time, in an important reduction of the proportion of the population living under the poverty line.

«This is a serious concern because a large proportion of the population lives in arid regions to the west of the Andes,» said Antoine Rabatel, the lead author of the study and a scientist with the Laboratory for Glaciology and Environmental Geophysics in Grenoble, France, in an interview with the Guardian.

Smoking is banned in virtually all enclosed public places in Australia.3 More than 92 % of Australian smokers and ex-smokers reported that smoking was not allowed in any indoor area at their workplace in 2010 — 2011, slightly less than in similar surveys in the United Kingdom and Canada but more than in the United States and European and middle - and low - income countries surveyed.4 In Australia5 and all countries with available trend data, the proportion of the population living in smoke - free homes is increasing; this is not just due to falling smoking prevalence.6

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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.

In many other countries, however, the CVD burden dwarfs that of cancer, and a large proportion of the populations will lose their lives prematurely to heart disease and stroke.»

[2] Years lived with disability (YLD) calculated by combining prevalence (proportion of the population with the disorder in any given year) and the general public's assessment of the severity of health loss (disability weight).

As the world's population grows, and the proportion of elderly people increases, the number of people living in suboptimum health is set to rise rapidly over coming decades, warn the authors.

Today more than 6 billion people live in cities — about 70 percent of the world's population, roughly double the proportion of a half century ago.

As populations scale up, the proportion of people killed in battle scales down, suggesting we're no more or less violent than our forebears who lived in smaller societies.

While criticisms mount, however, a large proportion of the world's population continues to live in the suburban fringes of growing cities.

In the 1950s about one third of the world's population lived in cities, by the second decade of the new millennium this proportion had risen to about one half and it is projected that by 2050, almost three - quarters of us will live in urban, rather than rural or other, areas.

As of 2005, roughly three percent of the world's population lived outside their country of birth — the largest proportion ever recorded by the United Nations.

As many countries are not only in recession, but also increasing the proportion of elderly people in the population, the authors wanted to know what impact this might have on life expectancy.

Many countries including the UK and Japan are learning to live with populations with an increasing average age and higher proportions of their societies in the older age range.

Approximately 5.5 million Americans are living with the disease, and this number is expected to grow as the proportion of the U.S. population 65 years and older continues to increase.

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!

Additional district demographic information, including the proportion of the population aged 5 to 17 and the proportion of school - aged children living in poverty, comes from the U.S. Census Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates for most years.

At the time of our study, a high proportion of its student population was black, and a significant proportion of the community lived below the poverty line.

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

When looked at with a lens taking in the full flow of history, of course, people's lives are getting better, the proportion of the human population dying young or slaughtered or savaged has steadily dropped.

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.

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.

A large proportion of China's population lives in central China.

According to the United Nations, over 54 percent of the world's population lives in cities, a proportion that is expected to grow to 66 percent by 2050.

While a large proportion of the region's population (in much of Viet Nam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos PDR, Thailand and peninsular Malaysia) lives on the main Asian landmass, many are also spread across thousands of islands — ranging in size from Indonesia's Java and Sumatra (home to more than 190 million people) to many small island communities.

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.

A large proportion of India's population remains unbanked and they live on these smaller cash payments on a daily basis.

If Bitcoin crashed, it could wipe out billions in life savings of a significant proportion of the Korean population.

Parental mental illness Relatively little has been written about the effect of serious and persistent parental mental illness on child abuse, although many studies show that substantial proportions of mentally ill mothers are living away from their children.14 Much of the discussion about the effect of maternal mental illness on child abuse focuses on the poverty and homeless - ness of mothers who are mentally ill, as well as on the behavior problems of their children — all issues that are correlated with involvement with child welfare services.15 Jennifer Culhane and her colleagues followed a five - year birth cohort among women who had ever been homeless and found an elevated rate of involvement with child welfare services and a nearly seven - times - higher rate of having children placed into foster care.16 More direct evidence on the relationship between maternal mental illness and child abuse in the general population, however, is strikingly scarce, especially given the 23 percent rate of self - reported major depression in the previous twelve months among mothers involved with child welfare services, as shown in NSCAW.17

The proportion of families living in rented accommodation was typical of England, but not of Oxford City, which has a higher than average level of rented accommodation because of the high student and visiting academic population.

Because a higher proportion of the Indigenous population live in rural and remote areas, the doctor shortage in the bush is having a greater impact on Indigenous peoples when compared to the non-Indigenous population, for example.

[27] The Northern Territory has the highest proportion of Indigenous people living in discrete communities, approximately 45 per cent, with 81 per cent of its Indigenous population living in remote or very remote areas.