Sentences with phrase «than the total population»

Of course, there are many reasons other than total population to focus on the Middle East.

Daily News columnist Albor Ruiz, citing reliable sources, notes that the number of low - income New Yorkers is greater than the total population of Chicago while the number of homeless New Yorkers reached a record level last year.

Although population is an important factor, demographic trends are more significant for climate change than total population, says the review.

They are also more likely than the total population to encourage their children to ask questions and less likely to set firm rules for them.

Of course, these highest achievers manage their debt responsibly, but to what degree better than the total population?

For starters, despite having four more credit cards on average than the total population, the highest scorers keep lower balances and use significantly less of their available credit.

Globally, the International Labour Organization estimates over 20.9 million victims of human trafficking (more than the total populations of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia combined).

Unfortunately, like most environmental organizations they skirt the issue of overpopulation by claiming that per capita consumption is a bigger problem than total population numbers.

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.

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

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.

In fact, India's total population could now be larger than China's, according to new estimates.

Mexico's middle class now boasts more than 40 million people, surpassing the total population of Canada.

The U.S. will account for more than one - fifth of the global total of the $ 30 million - plus population.

Individuals with a BMI greater than 35 (medical obesity) accounted for a disproportionate 61 % of the organization's total costs, given that they only represented 37 % of the obese employee population.

Much of the problem, Miller explained, is that Americans are already shouldering more than their fair share of pharmaceutical companies» costs: While the U.S, accounts for only 4.6 % of the total world population, it makes up about 40 % of the world's drug spending, and the bulk of pharma companies» profits, he said.

Specifically, we found the total cost over five years of these four expenses — closing costs, taxes, insurance and mortgage payments — for the average home in every city in the U.S. with a population greater than 200,000.

By 2020, half of China's digital shoppers — or more than a quarter of the country's population of about 1.4 billion — will be buying foreign products online, eMarketer estimates, with total sales of $ 157.7 billion.

When you consider the total population, this means more than twice as many U.S. adults have used voice assistants through smartphones (41.4 %) compared to smart speakers (19.7 %).

To put this in context, the richest 1 % of the population received more than twice as much income from capital gains alone, as the median total income of the bottom 99 % of society (which was $ 29,300 in 2011).

Specifically, we found the total cost over five years of these four expenses — closing costs, taxes, insurance and mortgage payments — for the average home in every county in the U.S., and every city with a population greater than 5,000.

Given the number of non drinkers in Utah, the number of state run liquor stores in the state, the total population of less than 3 Million with a 21 and over pop of much less than that, a 20 Million dollar liquor store is not realistic.

With a population of more than 283 million, this would put the total number of religious believers at between 28 and 56 million.

But, as the congressional report points out, the U.S., though it has only 5 to 6 per cent of the world's population, consumes more than 40 per cent of the world's total food and non-food resources — most of it imported.

According to the 1996 UNDP report 358 billionaires earn incomes totaling more than the combined income of countries with nearly half the world's population.

While there are more atheists than ever before as global population continually increases, the atheist percentage of the total population seem to be declining.

The sum total of a population's traits need to allow for more survival than near compet.itors, that's it.

Its 1972 census showed a total population of 819, with nine of this number — two women and seven men — more than 100 years old.

But by the outbreak of World War I they totaled less than one per cent of the population.

In these and many other countries, the population increases each year by more than their total Christian community.

Although the low - bottom alcoholic has provided the stereotype of what all alcoholics are supposed to be like, he represents less than one tenth of the total alcoholic population.

[6] African American students, men and women combined, amounted to less than 7.3 percent of the total student population.

The population of Bangladesh has grown by more than 10 % in the last 10 years, reaching more than 160m people, and it now accounts for more than 2 % of the world's total population.

Today the Jewish population is an estimated 200,000 (out of a total population of more than one million), and only one synagogue remains of the 11 that existed before World War II.

With 11 courses serving communities whose populations total only 30,000 permanent residents, the desert enterprisers have truly done more than any other spot in the country to bring what was once a rich man's game to Everyman.

With more than 1.1 million children being homeschooled, the number accounts for 2.2 % of the total student population.

So far about 93,000 schoolchildren, more than half the total public school population in Maine, are eating Let's Go!

This is despite Spain representing less than 10 % of the Union's population and an equal portion of its total territory.

Partly as a result of the UK's relatively high population density, the top 15 UK airports account for more than one million of the 2.5 million people affected by aviation noise across the Europe Union (41 per cent of the total), based on the European standard measure of 55LDen.

The UN recognised in July that over 100,000 people have been killed and more than 6 million, 25 % of the country's total population, forced from their homes.

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.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

Ida Kubiszewski and Robert Costanza at the Australian National University in Canberra and their colleagues gathered estimates of GPI for 17 countries — totalling more than half the world's population and GDP — and assembled them into the first - ever global picture of how GPI has changed over the years.

Since 2010, more than 130,000 university graduates have left Greece to look for work, making up approximately 75 % of the total immigrant population, a 2015 study from researchers at the University of Macedonia reports.

In the U.S. alone, therapy for chronic kidney disease is likely to exceed $ 48 billion per year, and the end - stage kidney disease program consumes 6.7 percent of the total Medicare budget to care for less than 1 percent of the covered population.

Dukes found that in a single year, 1997, the human population burned the equivalent of more than 400 times the total plant matter grown that year throughout the world, including oceanic plankton.

African - American men earned less than half of the S&E doctorates awarded to African - Americans in 1999.1 However, Hispanic men earned half their share and Native American men slightly more than half of the S&E doctorates awarded to their respective racial groups.1 The dearth of minority males contrasts with the overrepresentation of males among whites and Asians in S&E, especially in engineering, mathematics, computer science, and the natural sciences.1, 3 Overall, nearly twice the total S&E doctorates awarded were earned by men in 1999.1 The lack of minority males goes beyond the S&E community, but does this shortage extend beyond minority populations as some contend?

Coauthor Juntai Shen of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory adds, «They account for only one percent of the total mass of the bar, but this even more ancient population of stars appears to have a completely different origin than other stars there, consistent with having been one of the first parts of the Milky Way to form.»

So, too, areas in which people of color make up at least 25 percent of the total population average nearly five times as many pounds of chemical emissions from industrial facilities per square mile, compared with communities where less than 5 percent of the population are people of color.

Currently more than 1 million knee replacements and hip replacements are performed each year in the United States, and with the aging population, the number of total joint replacements is expected to grow.