At first it was thought no more than 300,000 children would vote but the Movement grew so quickly that more than 2.7 million children aged 7 to 18 years turned up at the polls, about a third of the age-group population nationwide.
Vega is only about a tenth of the age of the Sun, but since it is 2.1 times as massive its expected lifetime is also one tenth of that of the Sun; both stars are at present approaching the midpoint of their life expectancies.
In 1996, only a third of the 25-34 agroupoup had completed 12 years of schooling, compared with an average of 75% for the rest of the OECD; Ireland and Greece both managed 66% and Spain 50%.
According to a recent Washington Post poll, fully a third of the 18-34 age cohort today are living with their parents.
The definition comes from the Resolution Foundation, a thinktank devoted to improving the lives of low-to-middle-income households ("the squeezed middle"), which estimates that they make up a third of the working-age population.
A total of 263 jurisdictions, representing almost a third of the voting-age population, are now covered.
Only a third of those aged 18-19, the "born free" generation too young to have witnessed the end of apartheid, have registered to vote.
A third of the students polled, aged between 16 and 30, said they were interested in some form of overseas study.
A third of the migrants are under the age of 18, and one in seven is a woman.
