Sentence examples for population practices from inspiring English sources

A tiny segment of the population practices local religions, and an even smaller group follows Buddhism.

Most of the population practices Protestant Christianity; a significant minority follows a local religion.

Today Tanzania's multiethnic and multiracial population practices a variety of traditions and customs that form a rich cultural heritage.

Nearly three-fourths of the population practices Islam, while most of the remainder follows Christianity (primarily Protestant) or Buddhism.

Roughly one-fourth of the population practices Islam, most Muslims being settlers from Bangladesh or converts from the lower strata of Hindu society.

About one-fourth of the population practices Islam, with the Moplah (Mapilla) people of the Malabar Coast constituting the state's largest Muslim community.

According to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2.5 billion people, 40% of the world's population, practice open defecation.

Some two-fifths of the population practice traditional religion, which is based upon ancestor worship.

Discriminatory measures against Catholics kept far too large a portion of Ireland's population practicing subsistence agriculture into the mid-nineteenth century.

Islam is the religion of the vast majority of the population, practiced through involvement in groups known as Muslim brotherhoods.

Less than one-sixth of the population practice a variety of traditional religions; however, this number does not include the many Sierra Leoneans who practice traditional religions in tandem with their professed Muslim or Christian faiths.