In 1896 about 12,900 people, or nearly 4 per cent of the population, lived on them.

Today almost 90 per cent of the population are Christian.

By 1835 this was 576, or about one per cent of the population.

Fresh water is available to over 95 per cent of the population.

There are 150,000 students; more than 40 per cent of the population is under 25.

Rh+ women, 85 per cent of the population, have nothing to worry about.

The seven nations together account for nearly 20 per cent of the world's population.

Blacks make up about 85 per cent of the population.

Yet 19 per cent of the population lives in rural areas.

Those eleven states have 54 per cent of the nation's population.