Sentence examples for a tenth of the population from inspiring English sources

To put it in perspective: Puerto Rico's debt is half that of California's - with less than a tenth of the population.

Estonia is about the size of the Netherlands but with a tenth of the population, and its per-capita use of mobile phones, Internet banking and other technology is higher than France's or Italy's.

Almost a tenth of the population was illiterate.

Up to a tenth of the population emigrated.

As many as 500,000 Georgians, nearly a tenth of the population, work in Russia.

White South Africans make up only a tenth of the population but dominate the team.

More than a tenth of the population of Wales lives in the city.

Popenoe estimated that about ten million Americans about a tenth of the population—should be sterilized.

But some 2m families, about a tenth of the population, are now under Progresa's umbrella, and their ranks are growing.

In a nation where close to a tenth of the population has diabetes and heart disease is the number-one killer, our food system is a national disgrace and a public health disaster.

Ms. Pinto's family is among an estimated 100,000 East Timorese — about a tenth of the population — who have been ejected from their homes and communities by violence in recent years.