Mr Vaizey compared the UK favourably to Morocco, where only 10% of the population had access.
Neglect of infrastructure means that almost 10% of the population lacks access to clean drinking water.
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And only 10 percent of the population have access to the Internet.
The controversial project will more than double electrical output in Ethiopia, where less than two percent of the rural population has access to the grid.
Therefore it is particularly important to have a well-informed population with access to accurate and independent information from diverse sources, with an understanding of the decision-making processes.
Jones, who travels to Liberia every three months to oversee the group's projects, says that at least half of Liberia's 4 million population lack access to adequate drinking water.
But more worrying still, is the consistent failure to achieve the other half of the same MDG goal -- that of halving the proportion of the population without access to basic sanitation.
The lack of information resources is particular glaring in the context of access to the Internet and computers in Nepal, where the International Telecommunications Union estimates that only 6, 9 percent of the population has access to the networks.
To begin, in Norway, 94.8% of the population have Internet access (the highest), while Tanzania ranks lowest with 1.6%.
This by extension suggests that almost half of the entire population has limited access to basic social services such as health, secure livelihoods and education.
In Guatemala, 20% of the population has no access to electricity.
In cities like Addis Ababa and Lagos a quarter to a half of the population have no access to decent sanitation, and not many more will have access to piped water.
Each artist read a section of a poem by Man-Booker prize-winning author Yann Martel - emphasising the need for all the world's population to have access to clean water - followed by a musical or artistic performance.
Similarly, UNESCO noted that the net enrolment ratio (NER) in pre-primary education in 2005 for children aged 3 to 5 years was 46 per cent which suggest that well over half the pre-school aged population has no access to ECE.
It killed 5, 757 people and injured 12, 272, while displacing some 441, 000 people and leaving 4.2 million--70% of the population--without access to running water.
The UK is still some way behind the US - where 50% of the population have home internet access - but the price war is encouraging more people to log on.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency overseeing the programs, has warned that between 2015 and 2021, health spending is set to grow at an average annual rate of 6.2% as a result of the aging of the population, expansion of access to care under the federal health-care law, and an improvement in economic conditions.
As we spend weeks and months doing this, clearly the insurgents will attempt to come back and they will be denied access to that population.
Among them are the elderly, a growing share of the population, who want easy access to transport, doctors, hospitals, cinemas and above all family and friends.
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Annan's plan includes allowing humanitarian groups access to the population, releasing detainees, starting a political dialogue and withdrawing troops from city centers -- a mandate the government has not met, according to the United Nations.
On a much lighter note, global high-speed broadband adoption (defined as any speed equal or greater than 10Mbps) grew by 2.7 percent last quarter, with top honors going to South Korea where nearly half the population enjoys super fast internet access.
They will cater to the population who may not have had access to higher education thirty years ago.
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About a million Vietnamese out of an 80-million-strong population are estimated to have regular access to the web, mainly through internet cafes.
Now, it appears that they want their leaders to focus on the basics: creating better-paying jobs, protecting the population, expanding trade, improving access to technology, developing infrastructure in rural areas, and improving relations with foreign countries and trade partners.
Thus, when we say that 80 per cent of African population at risk of malaria has access to LLINs, we must not just sit back on our laurels but recognize that these nets do not last more than a few years and will need replacing.
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Indian exporters want better access to China's population - more than 1 billion consumers - for their goods.
The state will also make sure that those sectors of the population who have limited resources will have access to proper communication and information technology.
Cholera thrives in areas without clean water and proper sanitation, and the United Nations has said 6 million people in Zimbabwe -- more than half the population -- have limited or no access to safe water and sanitation in rural and urban areas.
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Meanwhile, more than 750 million people (more than 10% of the world's population) still don't have adequate access to drinking water, according to the United Nations.
Some countries are reported to be stockpiling enough anti-virals for 25% of the population, while others have little or no access to such medicines because of their high costs or shortage of stocks.
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