A great majority of estates were left without a man so that women constitute the majority of the population.

The urban population (57.5 per cent of the total) is larger than the rural population (47.4 per cent).

Women account for most of the unemployed urban population.

And the rest of us, the vast majority of us, struggle to get by.

Women account for the majority of the older population and most of them are poor.

Together, those three continents have the majority of world population and States.

Income has gone up for a majority of the world's population, despite the population going up by about two billion people over this period.

About 45 per cent of the population is made up of immigrants, most of whom come from neighbouring islands.

250. Judging by the data, there are no categories of persons in Bulgaria whose health is considerably worse than that of the majority of the population.

The foreign population is estimated at almost 20,000, the majority from Ethiopia.

A very high percentage of the Israeli population lives in urban localities 91.5 .

Most of the population is young (approximately 65 per cent of the population is under the age of 25) and rural (more than 60 per cent).

Below the age of 15 there are actually more boys than girls.

They give a lot of reasons, colds mostly, and most of them haven't got colds.

Given the predominance of the rural population in Zambia, the 2000 census recorded almost twice as many household heads in rural areas (1,241,534) as compared to urban areas (643,207).

The size is the population big China, big India here.

That adds up to an annual death toll of greater than the population of Canada.

This is surprising, of course, because in the order of six to eight times fewer people live in Africa than outside Africa.

Acknowledging the fact that the majority of victims of trafficking in persons are women and girls,

The Rafah crossing remained the only point of exit from the Gaza Strip available to most UNRWA local staff travelling on official business.

As we know, women and children constitute the majority of such victims.

Most of the migrants moved to Lima, where they make up 36.7 per cent of the population.

The Labour Survey of 2000 revealed that the employed population amounted to 401 203, with a male and rural majority of 55 and 56 per cent, respectively.

As pointed out in a previous report, newspapers are much too expensive for the majority of the population.

12. Most of the population of Sierra Leone is affected by the ongoing armed conflict.

Around 50 per cent of the population, especially the urban population, is connected to the sewage system, while the rural population in most cases dispose of liquid waste by depositing it in permeable or semi permeable tanks.

According to the Labour Survey of 2000, the employed population amounts to 401 203, with a male majority of 55 and an urban majority of 56 .

In many developing countries, the majority of telephones were located in cities while, at the same time, the majority of the population lived in small towns and communities.

Most are engaged in the production of fabric and plastics for export.

They comprised by far the majority of the non Chinese population, a position that is unchanged except that there is now greater ethnic national diversity and the numbers have continued to expand.

However, a majority of populations at risk of malaria cannot afford the nets at the current prices.

Changes in the social security system The change of the political regime and the form of economic management was supported by the majority of the population.

Women constituted the majority of the population in Africa and were in fact one of the continent s greatest assets.

86. The agricultural sector remains the main source of income for the majority of the population in developing countries.

Likewise, most national legislations do not make any distinction between trafficking and illegal migration.

(c) Care of adult women.

This is Africa. 10 percent the world population, most in poverty.

Education, social and pension reforms have led to the deterioration of the immediate social situation of the majority of the population.

The overwhelming majority of the population supported the status quo, and that meant that the issue had no connection with the Committee apos s work.

However, the majority of the world s people still lacked access to a basic telecommunications infrastructure.

Living conditions are extremely difficult for the majority of the population, 68 per cent of whom live below the poverty line.

235. The Committee is concerned with the disadvantaged situation of rural women who comprise the majority of the rural population, and the majority of workers in rural areas.

The annual rate of increase in the EAP is 4 per cent, for exceeding the rate of growth of the total population.

In the last census, conducted in 1989, the total population was recorded as 25,355, the majority of whom live in Grand Cayman, with some 1,500 in Cayman Brac and some 30 in Little Cayman.

The 2000 population number of 154,805 was more than 15,000 less than the 170,000 estimated before the census.