Sentence examples for proportion lives from inspiring English sources

Although most people live in the central plain, a sizeable proportion lives in relatively remote mountainous areas.

In Mexico, a large proportion lives below the poverty line; only one in four receives pensions from Social Security (SS) and about 30% receive monetary support from the national programme '65+' (for people of 65 years and over).

Still, the proportion living in shack settlements has fallen.

Between 1996 and 2010 the proportion living on less than $2 a day fell from 12% to 5%.

In the last two decades growth has reduced the proportion living in poverty in East Asia from six out of ten to two out of ten.

Twenty-three per cent are in partly free countries, and thirty-four per cent — the greatest proportion — live in countries that are not free.

A high proportion live in post-industrial northern towns, where councils own plenty of 1950s and 1960s family homes but comparatively few smaller flats.

Under the Child Poverty Act 2010, passed by Labour just before it left office, the government is committed to getting relative child poverty (the proportion of children living in households on below 60% median income) below 10% by 2020 and absolute child poverty (the proportion living in households below what 60% of median income was in 2010-11, uprated for inflation) below 5%.

A smaller proportion live in large towns and are culturally much closer to the Edo of neighbouring Benin City (in Edo state) than to the Igbo east of the lower Niger valley.

Accompanied by Margarita Zavala, Mexico's first lady, she visited a school where two-thirds of the 400 students are Hispanic, and an even larger proportion live at or below the poverty line.

From the 1960s on, married couples were less likely to live in old houses, and the proportion living in newly built houses gradually increased.