Sentences with phrase «thirds of its population after»

The New Orleans population had declined by 31 percent from a 1960 peak before Katrina, then lost two thirds of its population after Katrina, and now has regained only about 70 % of its pre-Katrina population.

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Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

As a result of the subsequent importation of African slaves Colombia now has the third largest black population in the Americas, after Brazil and the U.S.

Driving the move away from meat are the Millennials (those born between 1982 and 1999; a fifth of the population) and the baby - boomers (those born after the war; a third of the population).

She disclosed that out of 200, 000 unemployed youth that had been successfully engaged in the first batch of the N - Power nationwide, Osun came third after Lagos and Oyo states in terms of the population of the beneficiary.

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 United Kingdom is the third largest economy in Europe, after Germany and France, and is a scientific powerhouse that can not be doubted: «With just 1 percent of the world's population, the UK receives over 12 percent of citations to published papers..., and receives 10 percent of internationally recognized prizes each year,» according to its embassy's website.

Now — after a long search turned up a «pathetic, wilted» third specimen — a University of Utah botanist and her colleagues identified the spiny plant as a new, possibly endangered species and named it «from the heart» in Latin because it was found in Valentine, Texas, population 134 in 2010.

One mutation, and a huge jump Half a world away from Borucki's California lab, Vignuzzi had turned his attention to chikungunya, which had gained popular and scientific interest after an outbreak on Reunion, a French island off the east coast of Madagascar, sickened more than one - third of the population.

The Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 475,904 and an area of approximately 100 km.

Though a small village until the late 1960s, with only 6,392 people living in the entire municipality in 1950, by March 1, 2007 this number had grown to 118,483, making Zoetermeer the third largest population center in the province of South Holland, after Rotterdam and The Hague.

Graded into a sewage - runoff palette of watery fecal browns, Man Down poorly juggles three different timelines: one that follows a Marine (Shia LaBeouf) from training to Afghanistan, another set during a day - long meeting with a Marine Corps psychiatrist (Gary Oldman), and a third set in cheaply realized Red Dawn-esque post-apocalyptic future in which Islamist militants have taken over America after killing off most of the population with chemical weapons.

However, even though she is certainly treated as an equal in the estate, Dido lives in a Georgian England where the economy is still very much dependant on the slave trade, where less than a third of the black population is free, and where her mere presence at the after - dinner recitals in her own home can cause looks of shock and bewilderment from the distinguished guests.

With a population of over three million, Izmir is the third largest city in Turkey after Istanbul and Ankara.

Located in the south east corner of Queensland, the state capital of Brisbane is situated on the banks of the Brisbane River and is the third most populated city in Australia, after Sydney and Melbourne with a resident population of 2.1 million.

Slightly more than one - third of the province's population is bilingual, the highest rate after Quebec.

Salem had a population of 154,637 at the 2010 census, making it the third largest city in the state after Portland and Eugene.

While Muslims have been in Australia since before white «Christian» settlement, and although they are the third largest religious group (after Christians and Buddhists), comprising 2.1 per cent of the population, they remain a very small minority against whom high levels of negativity exist.

How many people know, for example, that with a metro area population of 1.3 million, it's the third - largest city on the East Coast — after New York and...