There has been no change in the ability of the population to influence basic decisions that affect its future well-being.
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.
Furthermore, as longevity of the population increases, these basic behaviors powerfully influence whether the added years are burdened by disability and illness.
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The culmination of more than two years of study and 30, 000 conversations with the public, Detroit Future City is less a master plan and more a guidebook that lays out a path for how Detroiters can begin the gargantuan task of rebuilding a decaying city that can no longer afford to provide even the most basic services to its shrinking population.
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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.
At a very basic level, the overall change in population in January 2013 was almost identical to January 2012, a natural decline of just under 22, 000.
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While motivations may vary, a number of these actions appear to be aimed at what is perceived to be a lack of trickle down benefits for the local population in terms of both basic services and jobs.
With advances in measuring physical activity levels, we have discovered, to our horror, that 95% of the UK population are not even doing the minimum recommended amounts of physical activity to confer even basic health benefits (30 minutes' moderate to vigorous physical activity on at least five days a week - or the equivalent).
"Even if it didn't manage to take the first place, Syriza is now the most basic body representing the average individual, the progressive and the anti-memorandum portion of our population, " Tsipras said.
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Most broadcast stations are part of the basic cable packages people buy, and just 10% of the population receives its TV signals only through the airwaves.
With reliable knowledge of the population, officials should be able to plan better to provide basic needs.
If a large enough percent of the population becoming ZMP, it creates a large constituency for a basic income payment.
Basic services such as water and electricity remain luxuries, while 25% of the population lives in poverty.
Yet such legitimate concerns should not be allowed to detract from the basic progress that has occurred: in the past 20 years the share of the world's population living in proper democracies has risen from about a third to just over half.
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