The population does mean you get a more precise estimate of BMI simply by averaging over large numbers.
Changing demographics (more older women in the workforce, an aging population) mean more workers with eldercare responsibilities than ever before.
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Putting a lid on the prison population will mean restraining sentences.
Asking them, along with the rest of the developing world, to go back to 2000 emission levels with a 2050 population would mean putting them on a very drastic energy diet.
But there is also economic sense to it, as opening these top positions up to the other half of the population will mean an even more talented slate of candidates to choose from, making sure the best and brightest are better and brighter.
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National competitiveness is a slippery and sometimes incoherent idea, but a coherent version is to take it to mean a population with the human capital to adapt when old jobs go away, and shift quickly out of dying industries and into growing ones.
But this is likely to mean a breeding population will become established.
Rising treatment prices, an ageing population and ongoing fiscal austerity mean that it will have to change if it is to keep pace with expectations.
The ageing population and advances in medicine mean more and more people are living with chronic long-term conditions, such as heart disease and dementia, for which there is no cure.
Here, the heroine of the previous films, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), crash-lands on a godforsaken planet whose population consists of a couple of dozen mean-looking convicts running some sort of dilapidated foundry.
That, in turn, could mean it would attract a sicker population, driving up costs.
So if population does matter after all, does that mean the Malthusians were right?
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Cholesterol UK said if that pattern was repeated among the UK population of 40 million adults, that would mean 12 million people did the same.
In a meritocracy the Lords would increasingly come to represent a random sample of the population over the generations, as regression to the mean moves all to the average.
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We do know for a fact that factors as diverse as climate change and aging populations mean that even as the global urban population continues to grow, some cities are shrinking.
Primary and preventative health care alternatives are often inadequate or inaccessible to a population where even an hour of missed income can mean the difference between food on the table or not.
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It would mean by 2050, Britain would have a population of nearly 72.4 million - overtaking Germany, whose population is projected to fall sharply over the period, as Europe's largest country.
Yes, today nearly 90% of the U.S. population has a wireless device, but that does not mean we are anywhere near saturation since we will all be carrying multiple devices for different tasks.
But putting GPs in leadership positions in the NHS will mean they can improve services for their entire local population.
But just because this population is an ideal place to mine for bad genes doesn't mean those genes will be found, or that once they are found they will lead to valuable drugs or even genetic tests.
It has yet to mean as much for the ill-educated, elderly and rural population.
Real town meetings--I mean the old-fashioned kind in which a town's voting population meets annually to bicker, gossip, elect councilmen, vote on bond issues--are anachronisms today, surviving only in a few eccentric backwaters of Ye Olde New England.
This would mean that, among the top 25 most followed accounts, we have a more active population of followers, as only 30% are reported inactive.
Only last week the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) pointed out that restricting inward migration would mean either even bigger cuts to public services or hefty tax rises to pay for an ageing population.
"Of course, it does not mean that what can be 'spared' in the rich countries could directly be used to feed population in developing countries, " explains Paillard.
By that I mean that in Kenya, the largest group, the Kikuyu, make up about 15 percent of the population.
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