• The General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) said that while the population has fallen, Scotland's share of the UK population has not declined below the level of recent estimates.

    BBC: Scotland's population falling

  • The latest statistics offer a more detailed snapshot of the population in 2011 and a new level of geographical detail relating to the characteristics of those living in England and Wales.

    BBC: 138,000 speak no English - census

  • Mr Gardner reminds us that the growth of the population has been far outstripping the hopelessly inadequate level of new house building, while the number of people in employment has been rising.

    BBC: Is the mortgage freeze about to thaw?

  • Eventually, a growing population and an increasing level of drought spelled the end for Tikal.

    MSN: Sustainable tech saw the ancient Maya through drought

  • The only single purpose here is to secure that population, bring the level of violence down, force the Sunni insurgents to realize that they cannot achieve their political objectives with armed violence, and bring together a reconciliation between the Sunnis and the Shiite-dominated government, which would then quiet the Shiite militias to be sure.

    NPR: Is the Iraq Surge Strategy Working?

  • The new tobacco control action plan is part of the overall aim to cut smoking in Wales from a quarter of the population, its current level, to 16% by 2020.

    BBC: A playground

  • But look, Tal Afar was an area that we had secured - we have secured the population and we changed the level of violence rather dramatically, we enfranchised the local leadership.

    NPR: Is the Iraq Surge Strategy Working?

  • Problems arise from conflicts between different uses of coastal land and waters, overexploitation of coastal resources, discharge of wastes and effluents into coastal waters, increasing stress by sea level change and growth of coastal population.

    UNESCO: Water Portal | Water Events Worldwide

  • Some 31% of the adult population is now considered obese, double the level in 1980, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported last month.

    FORBES: Hunger Pangs

  • At present, more than 70% of the working population have reached GCSE level or the equivalent.

    BBC: 'One in four people' in education

  • The market needs to be directly harnessed towards the goal of stabilising population growth at a sustainable level.

    ECONOMIST: On Phoenix, Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, global population growth | The

  • The expectations of the Nigerian footballing public are, of course, at a much more intense level, in a country with a population 30 times that of Ireland, and the Italian's tactical approach may be an issue for fans that demand to see their Super Eagles not just win, but do so in style.

    BBC: Why Trapattoni would suit Nigeria

  • Expenditures for social and cultural measures enable the State to develop the system of education, to finance culture, to satisfy the needs of population in medical care, to implement social security measures, to increase the level of social welfare.

    UNESCO: Belarus: Report: Part I: Descriptive Section

  • In China and most of the industrialised world, births and deaths are at or below replacement level (though America's population still rises because of immigration).

    ECONOMIST: Unshapely world, too old or too young

  • "You can achieve the same level of protection for the population at one-third the cost doing an intervention like this, " Fowler said.

    CNN: Obesity, STDs flow in social networks

  • Tom Edwards of NPD Group says it may only take 10 years for DVD to reach 90% of the population compared to the 25 years it took VCR's to achieve the same level of interest.

    BBC: Blockbuster signals the end of VHS

  • However, a strong student population does not necessarily lead to a large level of piracy.

    BBC: A glimpse at piracy in the UK and beyond

  • The sanctuary is home to minke whales of the Southern Hemisphere, the only remaining population of great whales in the Antarctic still at a level close to their natural abundance.

    CNN: Japan attempts to abolish whale sanctuary

  • Unlike the previous study that was more heavily weighted with minority participants and a wider range of education level, the ACS study population was more white and more likely to have a higher education level than the general population.

    FORBES: The Smoking Gun: Women Catch Up To Men On Lung Cancer Risk

  • Half of the city's population comes from immigrant backgrounds, Solidance notes, and the city supports a "good level" of diversity acceptance.

    CNN: Asia's most 'innovative' city is...

  • Mitman says affordability is a real issue here. 16 percent of Easton's population live below the poverty income level and unemployment is the second highest in the region.

    NPR: The Commuters of Easton

  • Three years ago, the Swiss Statistical Office calculated that, with declining birth rates, stabilising the level of immigration would cut the working population by almost one-third by 2050.

    ECONOMIST: Switzerland: Foreign relief | The

  • The islands, lying between the Antarctic and Subtropical Convergences and the seas, have a high level of productivity, biodiversity, wildlife population densities and endemism among birds, plants and invertebrates.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • But there are no reliable statistics at the state or local level on the share of CPOs in the population.

    ECONOMIST: Political polls

  • Still, because the current level is far below the level of 2.07 required to prevent population replacement, the result is net decline.

    FORBES: Japan's Demographic and Cultural Destiny

  • Later that year, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law to reduce the prison population by putting low-level offenders in county jails instead of state prisons.

    WSJ: California Offers a Plan to Cut Prison Population

  • The other thing is that 400 people is, to an acceptable level of accuracy, 0.0001% of the population.

    FORBES: Inequality For All: I Hope This Movie Is Better Than The Write Ups Of It

  • This individual doctor has galvanised the regional hospital to such an extent that last year they had the equivalent of 74 donors per million population, double the already high Spanish national level.

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  • The birthrate in this country has fallen below the level necessary to sustain the population at the very time that millions of Americans are leaving the workforce and expecting retirement benefits.

    WSJ: Jeb Bush and Clint Bolick: Solving the Immigration Puzzle

  • Consumption of wheat, rice and maize roughly tracks population growth but at a higher level, so demand for them will add about a billion tonnes to the 2 billion produced in 2005-07.

    ECONOMIST: The answer is less straightforward than it seems

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