Sentences with phrase «share of the population»

This group actually holds a majority of the power over robo advisors because the majority of global AUM is in the hands of this small share of the population.

With another major upswing in the terms of trade unlikely and the working - age share of our population having peaked as the population ages, improving productivity will be key to growth in our national income.

Much of the Christian church in the United States finds itself in the grip of the same phenomenon: people drop by occasionally, but an increasing share of the population searches for spirituality in other ways.

Over the past seven years, evangelicals have lost less than 1 percent of their share of the population, holding steady at about 1 in 4 American adults (25.4 % in 2014, vs. 26.3 %...

Church attendance is decreasing, though, and a larger share of the population is made of recent immigrants and their children who have no history of center - right political activism.

Pew tells us that «Whites continue to be more likely than both blacks and Hispanics to identify as religiously unaffiliated,» adding «But the religiously unaffiliated have grown (and Christians have declined) as a share of the population within all three of these racial and ethnic groups.»

Christianity's share of the population may be decreasing, but the evangelicals» share of Christianity is growing.

The chronic violence has galvanised some Christians into political action, especially in the Middle Belt states of Kaduna and Plateau, where the Christian share of the population is relatively high.

The fact that the administration used an executive order to impair mental health regulation of guns is not because any significant share of the population felt that this was problematic.

Between 2000 and 2010, the non-Hispanic white share of the population fell from 69 percent to 64 percent, closely tracking the 5 - point drop in the white share of the electorate measured by exit polls between 2004 and 2012.

Every time the census reapportions electors, several lawsuits are opened because one state didn't get enough and wants to steal an elector from CA, and CA didn't quite get enough for its share of the population either.

It brings New York's total outflow over the last six years to 846,669 people — more than any other state's, both in absolute terms and as a share of population as measured by the 2010 census.

Youth unemployment is a serious problem on the African continent, where the share of the population of young people between the ages of 15 - 24 is rapidly growing, but not in tandem with the job market.

And, while the immigrant share of the population is not as big as in cities like New York or Los Angeles, the diversity of languages spoken can make for its own challenges.

Between 1997 and 2010, for every voter Labour lost from the professional classes it lost three unskilled or unemployed workers, even after taking into account the declining share of the population that pollsters classify as working - class.

Yanagisawa believes a simple amyloid blood test would enable recruitment for clinical trials of new drugs in a larger share of the population, as opposed to only those with access to advanced academic centers.

For example, states in which the college - educated share of the population was 2.4 percentage points higher passed laws on average six months earlier.

With a large share of the population convinced that schools and teachers should be given more money, or at least be held harmless, few if any interest groups or politicians have an incentive to dramatize the fact that spending levels and teacher salaries are much higher than most people believe.

The contributors discuss two limited forms of choice in K - 12 education - vouchers and charter schools - when in fact a large share of the population has always exercised one or another form of choice.

While the number of children continues to climb, they are a smaller share of the population than they once were.

Countries without such alternative systems, either because the public systems were acceptable to Catholic leadership (as in Italy, Spain, Austria, and most of Latin America) or because the Catholic share of the population was too small to create and sustain an alternative system competing across the board with public schools, have not experienced the benefits of such competition.

While being a blessing for many, SlideShare proves to be a difficult media for the share of population suffering from...

True, black test scores increased by 6 points on average, but their share of the population is falling.

The persistence of the racial achievement gap means that a disproportionate share of the population of underperforming students is comprised of students of color.

For the other variables, each percent increase in the poverty rate would mean an increase of 0.35 percentage points in the boundary participation rate, each percent increase in the change of African American population over time would mean an increase of 0.75 percentage points in the boundary participation rate, and each percent increase in the share of the population that is African American would mean a decrease of 0.29 percentage points in the boundary participation rate.

Given standardized coefficients, to have an equivalent change in boundary participation to the Wilson boost, the poverty rate would have to be about 70 percentage points higher, or share of the population that is African American would have to be about 84 percentage points higher or growing by about 32 percentage points over the last five years.

We add the number of public charter schools per square mile for elementary schools and change in share of the population that is school - age for middle and high schools based on correlation strength (see Appendix Table 8).

Moreover, the Census Bureau projects that the elderly will make up an increasingly larger share of the population in the coming decades, straining state budgets with spending on health care and retirement benefits.

Among adults ages 25 to 34, for example, the United States is 10th among other industrialized nations in the share of its population that has a high school diploma...

The state with the lowest carbon dioxide emissions per capita is New York, which contains by far the largest share of the population that commutes via mass transit.

And since California is already one of the greenest places in the country, increasing the pace at which homes are built there so California could accommodate a larger share of the population would do more for the environment than any number of tweaks to the building code.

Typically, that ability has been measured by the share of the population living within, say, 0.5 kilometer of a transit stop, or...

The state of California is the largest contributor to the economic and agricultural activity of the United States, accounting for a greater share of population (12 %)(1), gross domestic product (12 %)(2), and cash farm receipts (11 %)(3) than any other state.

In industrial countries as a group, the share of the population aged 65 and over is expected to increase from 16 to 26 percent between now and 2050.

In fact, the baby boomers, the oldest of whom turned 65 in 2011, make up a greater share of the population than any other age group.

Aboriginal people are more likely to be denied bail, and make up a disproportionate share of the population in remand custody.

Because female offenders make up a rapidly growing share of the population of incarcerated youth, they pose significant challenges to correctional systems.

Attaining homeownership is important not only for individual minority families, but also for the market as a whole — especially as the minority share of the population continues to increase.»

Best markets for renting to Millennials Among the 516 counties analyzed there were 50 where the millennial share of the population was above the national average of 22 percent, where the millennial population increased at least 5 percent between 2007 and 2013, and where potential annual rental returns on residential properties were 9 percent or higher.

Best markets for renting to Baby Boomers There were 40 markets among those analyzed where the Baby Boomer share of the population was above the national average of 25 percent, where the Baby Boomer population increased at least 5 percent between 2007 and 2013, and where potential annual rental returns on residential properties were 9 percent or higher.

Best markets for renting to Gen Xers There were 20 counties among those analyzed where the Generation X share of the population was above the national average of 16 percent, where the Generation X population increased at least 5 percent between 2007 and 2013, and where potential annual rental returns on residential properties were 9 percent or higher.

Meanwhile, retail jobs are becoming rarer, with a falling share of the population working in the industry:

«The State of Hispanic Homeownership Report highlights how important the Hispanic population has become in driving overall housing demand in the US, and how this influence will only continue to grow as their share of the population increases,» said Chris Herbert, Managing Director Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, «Crafting housing policies that are attuned to meeting the needs of this important demographic group is essential to ensure they have access to decent and affordable housing.»

Census data shows the share of the population between the ages of 55 and 74 years old has increased by 30 percent in the last 30 years, from 16 percent in 1985 to 21 percent in 2015.

Not exact matches

In 2011, most state and federal prisoners were minorities — black and Hispanic prisoners alone accounted for over 60 percent of total prisoners, far greater than their share of the total U.S. population, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Canada earns its only «A» on the new indicator, entrepreneurial ambition — a measure of the share of the working - age population reporting early - stage entrepreneurial activity, such as attempts to establish or own a new business.

Costs for those two mandatory spending programs are set to soar as more baby boomers retire, because that cohort represents such a large share of the U.S. population.

This is where data is important, because just going on gut feeling to demonstrate your market share — «If I just capture one percent of the U.S. population, that makes our market share 31 million people!»

That is, it is a benefit that doesn't affect a huge share of the immigrant population at large.

The pro-independence Scottish government says Scotland would be entitled to 90 per cent of Britain's oil wealth — based on divvying up the two countries» waters — but only liable for about 8 per cent of its 1.3 trillion pound ($ 2.1 trillion) national debt, based on its share of the U.K. population.