This presented a sex ratio of 96.8 males per 100 females, slightly lower than that of 1990 (table 1).

The lowest percentage is in the Canary Islands (2.3 per cent).

This proportion was slightly less than 10 per cent in 1987.

A breakdown of the information by income range shows that the proportion of workers with no income increased approximately by a factor of three for men and a factor of 11 for women.

Women of this age still have participation rates about 15 lower than those of men.

111. Women apos s participation in Parliament is also low.

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In the same year, women magistrates represented the lowest proportion in relation to men, only 27.5 per cent.

The number of cases of cholera was lower than in the preceding period (2,008 in 1993 and 847 as of September 1994).

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To halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger and, by the same date, to halve the proportion of people who are unable to reach or to afford safe drinking water.

This ratio also compares unfavourably with the financial plan forecast of 45 per cent.

Their proportion is relatively low in Brazil and Malaysia.

The ratio of boys and girls, although equal at the beginning level of schooling, drops after the middle grades.

The percentage of women's participation, however, is particularly low in higher ranks.

Illiteracy is under 3 per cent and women's literacy rates are over 97.4 per cent.

However, such low participation does not apply to their economic activity.

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The proportion of girls going to school at right age is lower than that of boys and girl drop outs is higher than boys.

In contrast, deaths due to lung cancer have declined significantly among men.

The share of women went from 22.0 per cent to 27.5 per cent, an increase of slightly more than 1 percentage point a year.

In the same period, women were insufficiently represented in the higher levels of education.

Donor countries vary greatly in terms of the proportion of ODA contributed to population assistance proportions have ranged from 0.04 to 11.45 per cent.

In all groups and regions, however, the proportion of elderly is expected to rise as the proportion of children falls with declining fertility.

The participation of women in the Syrian Parliament now stands at 12 per cent but is still low in the local administrative councils, amounting to no more than 4.2 per cent.

The proportion of women in the labour force is always lower than that of men, in any age group (table 11.2).

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The proportion of women working part time is lowest in the 20 40 age group.

Women are slightly under represented in the higher ranks of the police force, with 17.6 of the higher ranks, to their 21 in the overall police force.

In most cases, fiscal deficits and lower export earnings were responsible for a deterioration of debt ratios.

228. There is a very low rate of births at home, 3.8 per cent, and even this rate varies widely according to region, representing one fourth of all births in Santiago del Estero, for example.

South East Europe and the CIS countries have a high share of people living in poverty, with the incidence remaining high in seven low income countries in that region.

The proportion of women portrayed in the curricula is still small, however, compared with that of men.

The objective of reducing the percentage of the population with incomes below the subsistence level was achieved in 2003 (at 19.8 ).

The proportion of women prosecutors and lawyers remains low (16 per cent and 6.5 per cent respectively).

Spending for this purpose as a percentage of gross national product (GNP) has been relatively low.

The percentage of women with secondary and higher education had increased in the period from 1981 to 1991, but these percentages are still lower than those regarding men.

A careful look at the present staff disposition of the IAEA still shows unfair and disproportionately low representation from developing countries, Africa being on the lowest rung of the ladder.

Men earn their lowest wages in the services, shopkeeper sales and non agricultural categories, in similar proportions as for women.

The number of students in urban areas is lower than outside urban areas at the ratio of 1 to 4.

249. This rate of participation by women in economic activity is far lower than that of men, which stands at more than 80 in both urban and rural areas.

The rate was highest in the Gaza Strip (49.6), which continued to experience large increases in enrolment, and lowest in the West Bank (37.8) because of the high proportion of rented premises.

There is some evidence of relatively low participation in routine breast cancer screening among women of Turkish and Moroccan origin and of relatively low participation in routine cervical cancer screening among women of Moroccan and Antillean origin.

The ratio of women is still lower in some sectors and lines of business (View index 3.6)

The relatively low number of reported infections may be the result of a number of factors.