The references to Hamas and Nahr al-Bared reflect the Jordanian authorities' long-standing anxiety about being drawn into wider regional conflicts, a risk that is particularly acute in light of the large proportion of the population that is of Palestinian origin.
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According to the 2009 Census on Population and Housing, young people aged 10 to 30 years constitute approximately 40 per cent of the population of Viet Nam, representing an increasingly important proportion of the population.
But in terms of the overall proportion of the population engaging with the social messaging service, it might be in a bit of a lull.
And the proportion of the population who use the Net is far from critical mass.
The proportion of the population over 65 will grow from 12.7% in 2000 to 20.3% in 2050.
But the 1991 census revealed that the Catholic proportion of the population was now 43% and rising.
Even more significant is the fact that the proportion of the population in the very obese category has increased.
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Over time, the proportion of the population living in poverty, as measured by some objective and absolute standard, should be declining.
The county has a far lower proportion of its population in any form of higher education than the rest of Britain.
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In 1985, America and Europe had more or less the same proportion of the population under 14 years of age: around 20%.
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Which accounts for, erm, almost everyone in China, a sizeable proportion of the population of India, and everyone in Spanish-speaking and Russian-speaking countries.
And with a large proportion of the population opposed to his ban, Mayor Bloomberg should brace himself for the legal challenges sure to come.
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Only a small proportion of the population is affected by these tuition fees, and even they don't actually have to pay them up front.
Others point out that Muslims in America form a smaller proportion of the population, are more dispersed and usually have higher skills than in Europe.
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Gabon enjoys a per capita income four times that of most sub-Saharan African nations, but because of high income inequality, a large proportion of the population remains poor.
In Iceland, for instance, the share of people who want to become self-employed is 33 percentage points less than the proportion of the population that believes that going into business is feasible.
In fact take a look at the figures from other European countries and you'll find only one where an even higher proportion of the population was born outside its borders - Luxembourg.
But more worrying still, is the consistent failure to achieve the other half of the same MDG goal -- that of halving the proportion of the population without access to basic sanitation.
"Meanwhile, an increasing proportion of the population is turning to the private rented sector for shelter with the latest figures showing this form of tenure overtaking the social rented sector last year, " he added.
This service has tremendous growth potential in regions such as Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe where banking infrastructure is not well developed and only a small proportion of the population is banked.
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In contrast, Kenya scores well for education standards, although its system caters for only a small proportion of the population, but public institutions are deemed very poor, with the country's ranking dropping 17 places (to 117th) in the past year alone.
But there was a fear that it deterred MPs from disclosing mental health problems or even seeking treatment - and since a quarter of adults would suffer from depression, it could discourage a large proportion of the population from seeking to serve.
Kabul, for example, which contains a huge proportion of the Afghan population as a whole, has been largely policed by Afghan forces for quite some time.
The Churches Together group said elderly people made up an increasing proportion of the local population, with only 56% of people in the town of working age.
The internet means that the discussion no longer needs to be face-to-face, though it involves fixes to ensure a statistically fair proportion of the unwebbed population is included.
The haredim, a tiny proportion of the Jewish population when Israel was created in 1948, are now the fastest-growing section of society: 26% of Jewish children entering primary school in Israel are haredim.
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"There is only a proportion of the animal population here that is susceptible to the disease, but it is not entirely clear how much of the animal collection would have to be culled should the outbreak reach Edinburgh Zoo, " he said.
He added that only "a very small proportion of the overall prison population" could be suitably punished without using custody.
Though Tutsis account for only a small proportion of Rwanda's population, the most powerful people in the government are all Tutsi.
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