Sentence examples for population belonged from inspiring English sources

And they estimated that 26% of the population belonged to an ethnic minority, as against the actual figure of 7%.

Before 1959 it was estimated that about one-quarter of the population belonged to the clerical order.

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

By the early 1970s about 34percentt of the total world population belonged to the developed countries, which among them had 87.5percentt of the total world GNP.

The practice became known as "racial gerrymandering". The court's solution required that states create majority-minority districts — districts in which the majority of the voting-age population belonged to a single minority.

The bulk of the population belonged to the third and fourth classes, the hanren, or northern Chinese, and the nanren, or southern Chinese the latter group also referred to pejoratively as manzi ("barbarians")—who lived in what had been Nan Song China.

About four-fifths of the population belongs to the Roman Catholic Church.

Just 14percentt of the United States population belongs to a club, she said.

More than three-fourths of the population belongs to the state-supported Evangelical Lutheran church.

The opening ceremony served as a recognition that a long-neglected population belongs in Brazilian society.

A small proportion of the population belongs to the Kharijite sect of Islam.