Children in tsunami-affected countries Children account for a large proportion of casualties both because they represent 39 percent of the overall population of the eight hardest-hit countries and because they were physically less able to outrun the water or withstand the force of the water and/or debris.
Children account for about half of Medicaid recipients.
The Red Cross estimates that women and children account for 80% of this year's cases.
However, the charity says families with more than five children account for just 1% of out-of-work benefit claims.
Haitian migrants and their Dominican-born children account for up to 10% of the Dominican Republic's population.
While the children account for 14percentt of AIDS deaths, they make up only 6percentt of recipients of antiretroviral drug therapy.
They and their children account for 36% of the population at or near the poverty line and for 29% of the unemployed.They are also an asset.
At West Homi Elementary, where Japanese-Brazilian children account for 53percentt of the 196 students, supplementary Japanese language classes are offered, as well as help in other subjects.
They have become the preserve of the middle classes, Mr Willetts thundered: only 2% of English grammar-school pupils are poor enough to qualify for free school meals, although poor children account for 15% of the school-aged population.
However, the 1990s saw rapid growth in immigration almost everywhere, and because population growth is slowing sharply in many countries, immigrants and their children account for a rising share of it.Counting migrants is horrendously difficult, even when they are legal.
Children account for almost a third of all human trafficking victims worldwide, according to the UNODC's global report on trafficking in persons (pdf), with the number rising to about two-thirds in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, and Central America and the Caribbean.
