Sentence examples for one-eighth of the population from inspiring English sources

More than one-eighth of the population is Muslim.

The other ethnic groups make up the remaining one-eighth of the population.

The Pashtuns (Pathans) account for about one-eighth of the population, and Sindhis form a somewhat smaller group.

African-Americans, who make up one-eighth of the population, now make up about 40 percent of those in prison.

The census of 1861 showed that less than one-eighth of the population belonged to the established church, and four-fifths were Roman Catholic.

Thus, the New Territories, where only one-eighth of the population resided in 1961, accounted for more than half of the total by 2005; the bulk of the New Territories population is now concentrated in the new towns.

Even then, one man estimates, one-tenth of the population was infected.

Roughly one-fifth of the population depends on public assistance or benefits to survive.

At least one eighth of the population of Albania lives on less than £1.20 a day, and despite the fact that the town rests on such abundant riches, the situation is no less dire in Bulqize.

At least one eighth of the population of Albania lives on less than $2 a day, and despite the fact that the town rests on such abundant riches, the situation is no less dire in Bulqize.

In Ireland's case, one eighth of the population was killed – one could almost say murdered– in the late 1840s, partly by the British refusal to distribute food, to prohibit the export of grain or provide effective poor relief.