Sentences with phrase «than the population of»

HP (hpq) recently said that they would dismiss 29,000 workers — more than the population of many U.S. towns.

The global audience for e-sports is expected to reach nearly 400 million this year (larger than the population of the U.S.), split between enthusiasts and casual viewers, and is expected to grow by 50 percent over the next three years, according to data Dojo Madness cited from the research firm Newzoo.

OTTAWA — Nine million votes were wasted in the 2015 election under Canada's winner - take - all electoral system — that's more than the populations of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces combined, according to a new electoral reform primer outlining why the principle of proportionality must underpin the government's promise to bring in voting reform by the next federal election.

In a report last year, the consulting firm McKinsey estimated that an additional 350 million people — more than the population of the United States — would move to the cities by 2015.

The program director for World Vision's work in South Sudan, Perry Mansfield, said: «When we get distracted by language and trying to define a problem in abstract percentages we can forget that every night more people than the population of the city of Los Angeles go to sleep hungry.»

A group of successful cooperators has a much higher chance of thriving than a population of selfish liars.

Some have estimated that 3 to 6 tons of sea salt per day had to be transported by canoe and on human backs into the interior to supply the Mayan people whose population then is estimated to have been greater than the population of the same region today.

The US population experiences poorer health at all stages of life than the populations of 16 other rich countries.

It is therefore a lot easier to decimate a population of 100,000 mammoths than a population of 100,000 rabbits, which reproduce twice a year and birth by litter.

«When we get distracted by language and trying to define a problem in abstract percentages we can forget that every night more people than the population of the city of Los Angeles go to sleep hungry,» WorldVision's South Sudan Program Director Perry Mansfield said in a statement.

But this high desert region is also home to 6.5 million people — more than the population of two - thirds of the states in the U.S.

Although their cancers are diagnosed at younger ages, this is largely because these ethnic minority populations as a whole are younger than the population of White women in the UK.

While that surely makes it a minority, considering India's massive population of 1.2 billion people, this percentage constitutes around 336 million people (more than the population of USA).

Zoosk currently has over 40 million registered members (bigger than the population of Canada) living in 80 countries (over 40 % of the countries in the world).

They tend to have higher average socioeconomic status students than the population of elementary schools overall.

Nationally, charter schools have no greater record of success than public schools although the student population of charter schools is more select than the population of traditional public schools.

Then she showed a needle point artist how to sell more books to an even more specific audience... «needle point enthusiasts» about her needle point work to an audience larger than the population of the city she lived in.

For example, a scheme that promises to double your money would require an investment base greater than the population of the entire world after 35 rounds of investing.

It's also about four times greater than the population of Sweden.

Despite the demonstrated emotional and physical benefits of companion pets, more dogs and cats are killed each year than the populations of Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota and Vermont combined.

In fact the total number of mobile gamers in China is more than the population of the US.

The MMORPG, which has more subscribers than the population of Greece, is based on a series of RTS... Read more

Located off Highway 1 on the Pacific side of the peninsula, El Rosario is primarily an agricultural town, with a population only slightly smaller than the population of Marfa, Texas today (around 1,900 people).

It's affecting more people than the populations of the U.S., Canada and Mexico combined!

This counld mean liberal financing terms for subway construction in every city with greater than a population of 1M in every city of the world.

The population of possible model realizations is better defined than the population of possible atomic clock readings.

And in fact, if you were to tally a census of notable Greek thinkers you would find that more came from Africa and the Middle East than from Europe or Anatolia, and there's a simple reason for this: the population of North Africa at the time was greater than the population of Europe.

In a measure of the size of the threat that mini programs present, WeChat already has a user base of 980 million globally, which is larger than the population of the European Union and Russia combined.

Not exact matches

As of Tuesday morning, it had 5,082 members — more than two times the population of St. Croix Falls.

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

Last week, Statistics Canada reported a big drop in the issuance of building permits for single - family homes in cities with populations greater than 10,000.

In Mississippi, more than 37 % of the population owed money to care providers in 2015.

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.

China's working population is projected to decline by more than 10 % by 2050, while the number of retirees will triple, to more than 300 million.

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.

There are no more tattoos or nose rings than in a representative sample of the population.

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.

Canada's youth are 15 — 20 % more likely than the population as a whole to consider emigrating in search of the right job, a split surpassed only by our southern neighbours:

Daily newspaper circulation as a percentage of population has steadily declined, from 35 % in 1945 to less than 15 % in 2014.

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

However, we also found that the risk - tolerance of hybrid entrepreneurs was, on average, no greater than the level of risk tolerance found among people who remained employed — i.e., no greater than the general population,» Raffiee reports.

More than 95 % of Newfoundland's population came to the island from western Europe in the mid-1700s, Gardner explains.

For example, if you are a business located only in the UK, you are limiting yourself to less than 1 % of the world's population, which isn't really an ambitious plan for growth.

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

The rest of the population wasn't much better: Overall, 66 percent of Americans are more likely to trust debit cards than credit cards.

The United Nations estimates that by 2050 more than 60 % of the world's population will lack fresh water for drinking and cooking.

Hong Kong and Israel have more self - made billionaires than any other place, when considered as a percentage of total population.

And in a warming world, the range of some of these disease spreaders is expanding, making population control efforts more urgent than ever.

The key difference is that they bounce back better and faster than most of the population.

Over the coming decade, the 600 largest and best - connected cities on the planet will contain a fifth of the world's population, capture almost two - thirds of its economic growth, and encompass more than half of global GDP, according to the McKinsey Global Institute.