Sentences with phrase «than the population at»

A January 2000 survey by the Panetta Institute found college students are less likely to vote than the population at large.

For example, the researchers estimated that one percent of women have a risk of breast cancer that is more than 3 times greater than the population at large.

A report published earlier this year by the US Institute of Medicine concluded that there was no firm evidence that Gulf War veterans were suffering more of these symptoms than the population at large, and if they were, whether there was a single cause.

Politicians, journalists, scientists, senior bureaucrats can all tend to have a higher population of narcissistic personalities than the population at large.

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.

«When you start looking at the people who are active online, they tend to be demographically younger, much more electronically active than the average in the population, more educated,» notes Soberman.

A 2010 University of Brasilia study found that 1 in 5 Brazilian women under 40 — more than 5 million women overall, or about 22 % of Brazil's population — had had at least one abortion.

They are found more often among entrepreneurs and chief executives — the very people who put incentive plans in place to optimize performance — than in the population at large.

Shark populations around the world started to plummet, with more than a quarter of shark and ray species now at risk of extinction.

Starting Thursday at midnight, according to several reports, Brazil will place a 48 - hour block on WhatsApp, the Facebook - owned messaging service that has more than 90 million users in the country, where the total population is slightly above 200 million.

«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.

At their peak a century ago, there were more than 2,500 company towns housing 3 % of the US population, according to The Economist.

«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.

With over half the world's population now aged under 30, some cities are better than others at catering for young people.

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

Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, believes China's population is much smaller than official statistics, owing to years of slower population growth under the one - child policy.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

That number is inconsistent with CDC data, which says that the average smoker population by state is actually more than double that number at 19.4 %.

A much larger percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic than in the general population: Richard Branson, Paul Orfalea, Charles Schwab, John Chambers at Cisco, David Neeleman at JetBlue.

If we look instead at the employment - to - population ratio — a better measure of the economy's job - creation performance — Canada's recovery is actually slightly weaker than those of the U.S. and Britain.

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

With the adult population of the US at more than 249 million in 2015, one in roughly every 100 people over 18 is locked up in the country's correctional system.

Children's Services With more than a quarter of the population younger than 20, it's no surprise that there are dozens of franchises aimed at children.

Lockheed and Hybrid Enterprises unveiled their partnership at a joint news conference entitled «The Road not Needed,» at the Paris air show, noting that more than two - thirds of the world's land area and more than half the world's population have no direct access to paved roads.

«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.

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

In a country where more than 230 people have been killed by terrorist attacks since January 2015 and unemployment still stands at 10 % nine years after the financial crisis, a growing part of the population is ready for a radical change.

At the same time, nearly one in four African American, Hispanic, and Asian business owners plans to apply for credit in the next 12 months, higher than the general small business owner population planning to pursue credit (15 %).

How can it be that more than 2,200 rockets of all kinds have been fired at Israeli population centers since July 8, but there have been so few casualties?

Another way of looking at that: Americans make up less than 5 percent of the world's population yet own roughly 42 percent of all the world's privately held firearms.

China is at the epicenter of this transformation, with more than half the population involved as either a provider or a consumer.

Over the past year, the number of people with jobs has increased by more than 2 1/2 per cent, a positive outcome given that the working - age population is increasing at around 1 1/2 per cent a year.

According to its website, over 140 languages and dialects can be heard in the city, with a third of its population speaking a language other than English or French at home.

Use online screening tools to identify the patients at higher risk than the general population, so you can focus more time on analyzing data than gathering it from scratch.

Immigrants older than 25 are more likely to have college degrees or graduate / professional degrees than the rest of the population at large.

With this new tie up with Unilever, Facebook is trying to expand its reach in a country where the social network has more than 93 million users and at the same time where only 13 percent of the population has access to Internet.

Sources: Bankrate, US Census Bureau 2015 American Community Survey, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, government websites, SmartAsset * For this study we looked at all U.S. cities that have a population greater than 200,000 with available data.

Furthermore, as of March there were still almost 3 million fewer jobs than at the end of 2007, and the ratio of employed Americans to the working age population was actually lower than it was at the end of the recession.

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.

The Greater Toronto Area grew by 5.1 % between 2006 and 2011, setting its population at almost 5.6 million, according to Statistics Canada figures, an increase of more than 477,000 people.

That's up from 43 million at the end of 2013 and is more than the combined population of France, Germany and Canada.

For both of these populations, search engines were dramatically more dominant than speciality websites like Yelp (which came in around 16 %) or any type of social media website (which came in at only 3 % for restaurants, and just 1 % for other businesses).

There are now more than 90 million of them, making this generation at least as large as the millennial population on which retailers seem to be so fixated.

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

To provide some answers, we looked at how the «most successful» of the survey respondents do things differently than the overall marketer population.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross plans to ask Congress for a major increase in funding Thursday to salvage the 2020 Census, a program beset by cost overruns, poor preparation and a population of Americans who are less likely than at any point in recent history to self - report their existence to the...

Elite opinion among a younger, left - leaning cohort favors economic efficiency over equality, and they're more inclined to be selfish than fair - minded when compared to the population at large.

You want to look at numbers... they account for less than 2 % of India's population, but account for 30 % of the armed forces, they win a disporportionate share of gallantry medals for currage under enemy fire.