Sentences with phrase «roughly equals the population»

Those factors included ensuring roughly equal populations in each district, border continuity, and constraining the ratio of perimeter to area.

In a month, meanwhile, the number of retiring baby boomers roughly equals the population of Anaheim, Calif.; and in a year it will be about equal to the population of Connecticut.

Not exact matches

On March 15, one of the contenders to become China's president for the next decade, Bo Xilai, was sacked as the Communist Party boss for Chongqing, an inland megalopolis with a population roughly equal to Canada's.

The decision said that the populations must be roughly equal not that there was any restriction on the shapes of the districts so long as they are contiguous.

Nevermind that the total population, and therefore potential market, of Canada, New Zealand and Australia combined is only roughly equal to that of the UK.

If the power over lines is taken out of their hands, and the districts are required to have roughly equal numbers of residents in them — at the moment the populations of each district are permitted to depart from the mean by up to five percent in either direction — the swing back toward Democratic control will be that much more dramatic.

The two products were chosen because they are roughly equal in price, not gender - specific, and easily targeted toward college students, who made up the sample population.

If world population had stayed stable at roughly 300 million people — a number that demographers believe characterized humanity from the birth of Christ to A.D. 1000 and that equals the population of just the U.S. today — there would not be enough of us to have the effect of relocating the coastlines even if we all drove Hummers.

When the two types of spin populations are roughly equal, the spins can rotate in any direction as long as neighboring spins remain anti-aligned.

It's estimated that in the US the feral cat population roughly equals the pet cat population.

In 2014 there will be 245 million Chinese PC online gamers eager to connect with friends via digital entertainment sources — roughly equal to 78 % of the current population of the United States.

«In 2015 there will be 275 million Chinese PC online gamers eager to connect with friends at home or in I - cafés — roughly equal to 88 % of the current population of the United States,» said Lisa Cosmas Hanson, Managing Partner and founder of Niko Partners.

Germany alone is projected to lose 8 million by 2050, a drop of nearly 10 percent from its present population of 82.5 million — that's a loss roughly equal to the populations of its five biggest cities combined.

For comparisons» sake, that is roughly equal to the entire population of metropolitan Tel Aviv today.