More than one-fifth of children and 27% of blacks and Hispanics were poor, too.
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At age 11, one fifth of children fail to reach the level expected in English (Level 4) - although achievement in reading is better than in writing.
Colin Davis was born in 1927 at Weybridge in Surrey, the fifth of seven children.
In Reading, nearly a fifth of all children receive free school meals.
In the West more than a fifth of white children attended mixed-race schools, with at least 10% of students from three or more ethnic groups.
The brother and sister team behind the James Bond films, Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, are both made OBEs, as is Iain Smith, the producer behind movies such as The Fifth Element and Children of Men.
Among the most affluent fifth, around 90% of children live in a household with both parents.
Government data show that a third of children from the wealthiest fifth of India's population are malnourished.
In 2011, 6.9 million children died before their fifth birthday and 358, 000 women died during pregnancy or childbirth.
According to the OECD, more than 70% of the children of the poorest fifth of Swedes are in state-financed child-care and education schemes, compared with fewer than 30% in America.
Although Child Health Plus is widely considered a success, it currently covers only a fifth of New York's uninsured children.
Fifth, to help working families with children through difficult times, we increased the Earned Income Tax Credit and allowed more families to qualify for the Child Tax Credit.
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Children born into the bottom fifth of the income distribution are nearly five times as likely to end their lives there as those from families in the top fifth.
That was no doubt less than she was owed: the children are promised one-fifth of their takings, yet since they are paid only once a year and cannot easily keep a tally of roses sold, their bosses diddle them.
Now is the time for all of us -- governments, businesses, civil society and concerned citizens -- to seize this opportunity and fulfill our obligation to give all children an opportunity to celebrate a fifth birthday.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists drowning as the second leading cause of unintentional injury-related death among children ages 1 to 14 and the fifth leading cause of death for Americans of all ages.
That is because the top fifth is heavily composed of two earner couples and older children or other relatives that work.
Research shows children of parents who are in the poorest fifth of the population tend to do worse than those of the richest fifth of the population.
Sebsebila Nassir was born in 1990, when about 20% of all children in Ethiopia did not survive to see their fifth birthdays.
About a fifth, an estimated 106, 000, are school-aged children.
In a world where there are more mobile phones than people, with almost unlimited global connectivity and where transactions occur in seconds not days, it seems incongruous that one out of eight children in sub-Saharan Africa die before reaching their fifth birthday.
About half of all Zambian children are malnourished to the point of being stunted, a fifth severely so.
Brazil is four times richer than Sri Lanka, but its children are more than twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday.
Mr. Ergen, 59 years old, says four of his five children have stopped paying for a TV subscription, and the fifth is living home.
Many of the wives I spoke with had reared children and families alone while their husbands were off on their fifth and sixth deployment.
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The survey also found that the number of children up to the age of 10 who needed hospital treatment rose by a fifth in 2010.
In England, children have to be in full-time education at least by the term after their fifth birthday and the main starting point is September.
It is the fifth year that the neighbours in Creeting St Mary near Stowmarket have been raising money for East Anglia's Children's Hospices.
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