Sentence examples for population made from inspiring English sources

In 1950, West Africa's urban population made up 8.3percentt of the overall population.

But supporters of the legislation said the state's skyrocketing prison population made the law necessary.

In 2007, that same population made up 5.8percentt of death row inmates.

The Malthusian theory of population made a strong and immediate impact on British social policy.

The share of the state's senior population made up by whites will shrink from 59%to45%59%to45%

Perhaps a quarter of the nation's population made its way to Chicago in six months, returning home transformed.

By the 17th century, there were hundreds of small towns — known as shtetls — where the Jewish, Yiddish-speaking population made up a majority of the ­residents.

Terror is violence as synecdoche, atrocities carried out on a small part of the population made to stand for the whole.

I explained that whether they were a unique sub-species or not, the relative isolation of this population made it a vital reserve in the gorilla gene pool.

But Guatemala's history of greater income disparities, between the upper classes and the rural indigenous population, made the effects of negative economic factors much more devastating.

Since 2000, the proportion of the prison population made up of whites and blacks had declined slightly; the share of Hispanics increased.