Sentences with phrase «rates than the population»

Church attendance is reported as increasing at a faster rate than the population.

And while young people in general tend to vote at lower rates than the population as a whole, the signs are that student turnout in 2015 will be high.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, although older workers have a lower unemployment rate than the population at large it takes longer for them to find work once they have been laid off.

Not exact matches

The report also points out that Dreamers start businesses at more than twice the rate of the general population, in large part because they are used to making ends meet without help from the government.

Perhaps most concerning is the study's findings that the smoking rate hasn't changed in poor populations; among the rich, it's fallen more than five percentage points.

That's nearly half of the population and more than two times the average rate across the euro zone.

«Our data suggests the younger Gen Y population is adopting motorcycling at a far lower rate than prior generations,» AB analyst David Beckel said in a July note downgrading its rating of Harley - Davidson shares from «outperform» to «market perform.»

But despite a steady increase in their share of entrepreneurial activity, founders from Latino communities along with those from other minority groups — which made up 40 percent of the U.S. population in 2015 — still receive less funding and fail at faster rates than their white counterparts.

«Our data suggests the younger Gen Y population is adopting motorcycling at a far lower rate than prior generations,» AB analyst David Beckel said in the note.

Britain's population has grown fast in the last 15 years, at an annual rate of more than 0.5 % since the year 2000.

In Canada, Austrailia and Germany — to name a few places — immigrants and refugees have had a higher rate of successful entrepreneurial endeavors than the native population.

The trouble is, the number of Ontarians aged 65 and over is growing at a rate three times faster than the overall population.

«But that's not the case with mental - health issues,» including depression, which he believes affects entrepreneurs at a higher rate than the general population.

That's lower than the current unemployment rate of 4.1 percent for the entire U.S. population and 14.4 percent for teens.

People of color are increasingly launching businesses at a faster rate than that of the general population.

That's lower than the current unemployment rate of 4.1 percent for the entire U.S. population and a steep 14.4 percent for teens.

The Task Force concluded that, in 1992, the population included in their analysis had a savings rate of 10.1 per cent, which is greater than the 8.9 per cent target rate that would allow two earner families to meet their retirement income target.

The military spouse unemployment rate sits around 26 percent — much higher than the general population — and military spouses are likely to make 38 percent less than their civilian counterpart.

In Melbourne, where the population is growing very strongly, housing prices are still increasing faster than incomes, although the rate of increase has slowed.

Broward County's rate of census forms returned, including our hard - to - count populations, was higher than the national average resulting in an increased flow of federal funds.

While Philadelphia seemed to have higher mortgage rates as a possible consequence of its denser population, Erie saw more of a difference in its average home prices than it did with typical mortgage rates.

The organization's 2015 Military Lifestyle Survey found that female military spouses experience unemployment at nearly three times the rate of their civilian counterparts despite also demonstrating greater educational and professional experience than the general population.

Ontario government spending has been increasing faster (by about 3 % per year) than the combined rate of population growth and inflation.

Between 2006 and the industry's peak in 2014, the number of restaurants in the U.S. grew 7.3 % to more than 638,000 — outpacing the population 6.9 % growth rate.

In a seven page report released Friday, Beata Caranci says the need for financial literacy has never been higher because of record low interest rates and household debt growing faster than income, something the millennial population seems unprepared to deal with.

Mixed with Maryland's scarcity of large parcels and access to a large population within a day's drive, it makes the state an attractive place for investors seeking steady returns higher than they can find in low - interest rate bonds.

In the United States, Japan, Russia, and most countries in Europe, populations are aging, some at much faster rates than others.

Stockland chief executive Mark Steinert this week said the national population growth rate of 1.6 per cent would keep driving demand for new facilities, even though traditional retailers were planning fewer new stores than they were five or six years ago.

With a population of more than 600 million and annual growth rates near five per cent, ASEAN is a market rich in opportunities for Canadian exporters.»

And yet Gulf War II - era vets still face higher unemployment rates than the general population — 15.5 % for female vets, 9.2 % for male vets.

The fall in the number of births to immigrant women is explained by behavior (falling birth rates), rather than population composition (change in the number of women of childbearing age), according to a Pew Research analysis.

the black population should be more concerned with the 27 % unemployment rate in the black community rather than who wants to marry who?

Lest common sense fail to convince readers that surgery is not a treatment for a mental disorder, a Swedish study published in 2011 found that over the long term, 324 people who had undergone sex - reassignment surgery demonstrated an alarmingly high suicide rate and experienced considerably higher numbers of severe psychiatric problems than were present in the general population.

Both groups molest children at rates lower than the general population.

In 2010 the nation's poverty rate rose to a 17 - year high, with more than 46 million people — 15.1 % of the population - living in poverty and 49.9 million living without health insurance.

Just as Thomas Malthus had shown how population had the capacity to increase faster than the food supply, so this computer - based report concluded that world order would collapse if population growth, industrial expansion, increased pollution and the depletion of natural resources were to continue at current rates.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

Atheism is currently the fastest growing demographic, having more than doubled over the last decade and in the youth population the growth rate seems to be exponential.

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

According to a recent pew study, among PRACTICING Christians, the divorce rate is FAR less than the secular population.

By the late 1980s, more than seventy of the world's governments reported that they viewed their national fertility or population growth rates as «unsatisfactory,» and that they considered policy interventions to alter these rates to be «appropriate.»

Upon my arrival I was instantly confronted by the visceral reality that I was in the country with the highest murder rate in the world, where rape was common and more than half the population was HIV - positive — men and women, gays and straights alike.

Moreover, for all the uncertainties of long - term population forecasting, the likely change in size and composition of a national population can be predicted over the course of the coming calendar year with far greater certainty than can changes in the harvest, the gross national product, the unemployment rate, the foreign exchange rate, or the demand for any particular product.

The AG's rate of expansion since 1989 has been even higher than the general population growth, the denomination reported.

With the divorce rate among couples using NFP being less than 10 per cent of that of the general population - whether NFP is used to facilitate or space births - there's no obvious indication of imperfection.

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 1970.6

Blacks make up more than 12 % of the population in the United States and will vote at a rate of about 98 % for Obama.

Although for a variety of reasons the per capita rate of conviction for most types of crime has been higher among the poor and the black, that alone can not explain why a tenth of the population should account for more than half of those executed.

Since the middle of the eighteenth century, the West's population has more than quadrupled while real income per head increased at least fivefold — an even faster rate than today's population growth in the Third World.

Influenced by lowering birth rates and increasing life expectancy, all major European countries such as the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy have more than 16 % of population who are aged above 65 years in 2012.