While Japanese alarmists blame a lack of competitiveness, the fact is that Japan's working-age population is declining, and within that population the proportion of workers willing to do manual jobs is also falling.
Additionally, the aging population is increasing in proportion to the overall U.S. population.
FORBES: Getting Granny On Facebook Can Goose Wireless Stocks Higher
According to the 2009 Census on Population and Housing, young people aged 10 to 30 years constitute approximately 40 per cent of the population of Viet Nam, representing an increasingly important proportion of the population.
And the proportion of the population who use the Net is far from critical mass.
The proportion of the population over 65 will grow from 12.7% in 2000 to 20.3% in 2050.
But the 1991 census revealed that the Catholic proportion of the population was now 43% and rising.
Even more significant is the fact that the proportion of the population in the very obese category has increased.
FORBES: How Useful Is Body Mass Index In Predicting Long-Term Health?
And Washington has had to grapple with a budget deficit now larger in proportion to its population than even California's.
ECONOMIST: The recession hit late but hard in Washington state
Over time, the proportion of the population living in poverty, as measured by some objective and absolute standard, should be declining.
The county has a far lower proportion of its population in any form of higher education than the rest of Britain.
ECONOMIST: They want to emulate the boom in the rest of the south-west
In 1985, America and Europe had more or less the same proportion of the population under 14 years of age: around 20%.
ECONOMIST: Demography and the West: Half a billion Americans? | The
Which accounts for, erm, almost everyone in China, a sizeable proportion of the population of India, and everyone in Spanish-speaking and Russian-speaking countries.
And with a large proportion of the population opposed to his ban, Mayor Bloomberg should brace himself for the legal challenges sure to come.
FORBES: NYC Department of Health Supersizes Government, Approves Sugary Beverage Ban
Only a small proportion of the population is affected by these tuition fees, and even they don't actually have to pay them up front.
At the 1998 convention, just under half the 152 delegates were women and five were aborigines (slightly more than their proportion in the population).
Viet Nam has entered what is known as the period of golden population, recording the highest proportion of young people ever in the country's history.
But in terms of the overall proportion of the population engaging with the social messaging service, it might be in a bit of a lull.
Others point out that Muslims in America form a smaller proportion of the population, are more dispersed and usually have higher skills than in Europe.
ECONOMIST: Unlike in America, terrorism in Europe is often home-grown
Gabon enjoys a per capita income four times that of most sub-Saharan African nations, but because of high income inequality, a large proportion of the population remains poor.
In Iceland, for instance, the share of people who want to become self-employed is 33 percentage points less than the proportion of the population that believes that going into business is feasible.
In fact take a look at the figures from other European countries and you'll find only one where an even higher proportion of the population was born outside its borders - Luxembourg.
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.
"Meanwhile, an increasing proportion of the population is turning to the private rented sector for shelter with the latest figures showing this form of tenure overtaking the social rented sector last year, " he added.
This service has tremendous growth potential in regions such as Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe where banking infrastructure is not well developed and only a small proportion of the population is banked.
FORBES: MasterCard Targets its Next Billion Customers with Mobile Partnerships
The references to Hamas and Nahr al-Bared reflect the Jordanian authorities' long-standing anxiety about being drawn into wider regional conflicts, a risk that is particularly acute in light of the large proportion of the population that is of Palestinian origin.
ECONOMIST: Is the Muslim Brotherhood turning its back on politics?
In contrast, Kenya scores well for education standards, although its system caters for only a small proportion of the population, but public institutions are deemed very poor, with the country's ranking dropping 17 places (to 117th) in the past year alone.
There are more hackers in the United States than any other country because there are more people on the internet than the United States than any other country, and it pretty much goes down the chain in proportion to the population.
But there was a fear that it deterred MPs from disclosing mental health problems or even seeking treatment - and since a quarter of adults would suffer from depression, it could discourage a large proportion of the population from seeking to serve.
This is incredibly important as the U.S. population increases in size and the proportion of older Americans grows.
Kabul, for example, which contains a huge proportion of the Afghan population as a whole, has been largely policed by Afghan forces for quite some time.
应用推荐