Sentences with phrase «third of its population by»

If the present birth rate of 1.37 births for women of childbearing age continues, Japan could lose one - third of its population by the middle of this century.

If this continues, Japan could lose over a third of their population by 2060, according to data from the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research.

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There will be 119 million Americans over 50 by 2020, according to AARP, one - third of the total population.

Despite feverish press coverage of VR, two - thirds of the U.S. population remains unaware of the technology, according to a survey by research firm Horizon Media.

Just over a quarter of Japan's population is aged 65 and over and that number is projected to rise to a third by 2035, according to Japanese government data.

In fact, «member communities» are now visited by more than two - thirds (67 percent) of the global online population, including social networks and blogs, according to The Nielsen Company, a global research firm.

Today, freelancers account for more than one - third of the U.S. workforce, and by 2020 half of the country's working population are expected to be independent contractors.

By 2050, almost third of the population is projected to be over the age of 60.

Project Loon was first incubated by the experimental Google X division in 2011, but was officially announced in June 2013 with a remit to help bring the internet to the two thirds of the world's population who still don't have access.

According to Bloomberg, the government aims for 435 million of its citizens, a third of its population, to work out more frequently by 2020.

By 2020, they will represent roughly one - third of the adult population.

The American economy will strain to support elderly dependents comprising a third of its population, but the Iranian economy will collapse — particularly given the projection, common among economists, that, by about 2020, Iran will be a net importer, rather than exporter, of oil, as its reserves dry up.

Unless, it appears, that includes a university - related club that represents the beliefs of evangelicals, who make up (measuring by belief) more than a third of the U.S. population.

That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

This report is the third of a three - part series on Israel by Editor James M. Wall: Israel has found itself in the uncomfortable role of an occupying military power, controlling the lives of a large population of Palestinian Arabs.

They are seen in the struggle against the MAI for the cancellation of Third World debt, the struggle against embargoes imposed by an imperial power, the United States, on entire populations who are paying the price.

Yet, as noted, activist population programs have been embraced by governments presiding over something like four - fifths of the people of the Third World.

Third, much of the current discourse on the population «problem» seems implicitly to assume that the elimination of poverty may be served by preventing the birth of poor people.

Nor, for that matter, will there be many Greeks; with a fertility rate of only 1.37 children per female, one of the world's lowest, Greece by mid-century will have a population two - thirds of which exceeds the age of sixty, and very little population at all by the end of the century.

Two - thirds of the economic progress made by underdeveloped nations since 1950 has been wiped out by the population explosion.

Supposedly, there are 2 billion such folks among us these days — a third of the planet's population who take the name of Christ, bear his cross, have been buried with him by baptism into his death.

Closer to 60 million or a third of the entire population, by stalins hand alone.

If By virtue of his parents faith, obama can not be a Christian, then why are we Preaching the Gospel to the 41 % of the Unreached people groups, the Two - thirds of the world's population - more than 4.4 billion people, esp in windows1040 who are predominantly of islam and other religion?

The report also shows that American Indian students, who account for less than 2 percent of the student population statewide, received more than one - third of all corporal punishment in North Carolina public schools, although most of that disparity was driven by one school district, Robeson County.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

It showed that, in England, Englishness is the predominant national identity, expressed by two thirds of the population (with 58 % choosing only English identity), while just 29 % identify with Britishness (19 % choosing only British identity).

Ethnic minorities will make up a third of the British population by 2050.

In the meantime, New York health officials can help examine Puerto Rico's insurance claims data to see if there are areas in which costs can be reduced by finding efficiencies in the system, which is crucial because more than two - thirds of the population rely on either Medicaid, Medicare or Medicare Advantage.

Without them our regular supply of food would reduce by about a third, at a time when we need to increase our food production to cope with a ballooning global population.

By comparison, the average Muslim, Hindu and Sikh school is situated in an area where a third of the local population is «white British», whereas Jewish schools are in areas where 12 percent is «Asian».

Huntington, by contrast, with a population around two - thirds of Oyster Bay, spends about 7 cents of every dollar on debt.

It will be part of a third round of public hearings on the district changes, which are made by a 15 - member panel every decade to account for population shifts identified by the U.S. Census, after the process was thrown into reverse earlier this year.

The virus, which threatens a third of the world's population, spreads by mosquito bites.

Formation of trading networks among dispersed groups of H. sapiens, or possibly among closely related populations, best explains how large amounts of obsidian turned up at Olorgesailie by 320,000 years ago, contends Potts, who coauthored the third paper.

By then, more than one - third of the population had fallen ill and 20 people were dead.

We reduced the amount of water southern Nevada was using by one - third since then, despite the fact that we increased our population by 400,000.

By the 1880s more than a million people lived east of London Bridge — a third of the city's population.

He found that the species» population has declined more than one / third over the last decade, and that just under half of the species» habitat has been irreversibly transformed by humans — primarily for crop production.

In fact, Singapore was rated third lowest in entrepreneurial activity by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2001, which compared 29 countries that together represent 30 % of the world's population.

Because the viruses are so common, about a third of the population have developed immunity to them by adulthood.

Many developed TB either because their immune systems, weakened by drugs, alcohol and poor nutrition, could no longer keep latent TB in check (an estimated one third of the world's population has latent TB) or they caught it from other prisoners.

The burgeoning world population (predicted to be 9.3 billion by 2050), changing consumer demand in third - world countries, the gradual depletion of prime agricultural land, the use of innovative technologies, and scientists who view plants as a source of industrial products as well as food all contribute to the good prospects for the ag - biotech industry, particularly in Canada.

A better understanding of how metropolitan areas evolve could prove useful, considering that two thirds of the world's population is expected to live in urban areas by 2050, notes David Levinson, a transportation engineer at the University of Minnesota.

But by 2030, a whopping 85 cities — home to nearly third of the U.S. population — are projected to deal with at least 20 danger days annually.

There, seven years of natural - gas drilling in the Pinedale Anticline region have slashed mule deer populations by a third.

In the 1950s about one third of the world's population lived in cities, by the second decade of the new millennium this proportion had risen to about one half and it is projected that by 2050, almost three - quarters of us will live in urban, rather than rural or other, areas.

In a third study published online by Science on 6 April (www.sciencexpress.org), molecular geneticist Valter Longo of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and colleagues battered a population of yeast mutants with heat or paraquat, a chemical that creates reactive oxygen molecules.

In the Calnali River in Mexico, two pure species of swordtail fish live side by side with a third population that's a mix of the original two.

Having a clearer understanding of the evolution of metropolitan polycentricity could prove useful, Levinson says, especially considering that two thirds of the world's population is expected to be urban by the year 2050.

By analyzing the teeth of those buried in different locations in Cahokia, Emerson, state archaeological survey bioarchaeologist Kristin Hedman and graduate student Philip Slater discovered that immigrants formed one - third of the population of the city throughout its history (from about AD 1050 through the early 1300s).