In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

After showing its first growth since the communist era in 2000, Bulgaria ’ s industrial sector has grown slowly but steadily in the early 2000s ( decade ).

In the early 2000s ( decade ), the industry ’ s plan for survival has included upgrading products to satisfy Western markets and doing cooperative manufacturing with Russian companies.

In the early 2000s ( decade ), shipbuilding has prospered at the major Varna and Ruse yards because of foreign ownership ( Ruse ) and privatization ( Varna ).

In the United Kingdom, bass music, or UK Bass, as it is often known there, has had major mainstream success since the late 2000s and early 2010s, with artists such as Example, Chase & Status, Skream, Benga and Wretch 32.

From the 2000s on, Central Europe has been going through a phase of " strategic awakening ", with initiatives like the CEI, Centrope or V4.

Afghanistan Post has been reorganizing the postal service in 2000s with the help of Pakistan Post.

Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

While the upright bass is still occasionally used in country music, the electric bass has largely replaced its bigger cousin in country music, especially in the more pop-infused country styles of the 1990s and 2000s, such as new country.

However, Per Thulberg, director general of the Swedish National Agency for Education, has said that the system " has not led to better results " and in the 2000s Sweden's ranking in the PISA league tables worsened.

The school voucher question in the United States has also received a considerable amount of judicial review in the early 2000s.

The club has spent twenty-four seasons in English football's top division, the majority of that in two spells during the 1960s and 2000s.

As a bottled beer produced by the Foster's Group ( formerly the Carlton United Beverages group ( CUB )) it has rarely been promoted in Australia since the early 2000s.

In the 2000s, Germany has been arguably the centerpiece of the European Union ( though the importance of France cannot be overlooked in this connection ).

However, the belief that the Saxons simply wiped or drove out all the native Britons from England has been widely discredited by a number of archaeologists since the 2000s, and the likelihood of that model being severely questioned.

The struggle against HIV has provided no cure, but improved antiretroviral treatments, and in the late 2000s ( decade ), male circumcision was proved to diminish infection risk.

Iceman has been featured in two self-titled limited comic book miniseries, one in the 1980s by J. M. DeMatteis and another in the 2000s by Andy Lanning and Dan Abnett, art by Karl Kerschl.

The population growth rate has been reported as somewhat reduced during the 2000s and is now estimated at 2. 7 % ( as of 2010 ), resulting in an estimate of a total population 41 million in 2011.

In the early 2000s, Internet use has expanded rapidly.

In the early 2000s, Asamiya has shifted his focus from teenage and young-adult stories to stories designed for children and for an American audience.

The island's population has strongly increased in recent years, from about 2, 000 in 1989 to about 5, 000 in the early 2000s.

The growing popularity of the somewhat similar activity of geocaching during the 2000s has increased interest in letterboxing as well.

He has also been voiced in animation by Jackson Beck in the 1960s series The New Adventures of Superman, Stan Jones in the 1970s / 1980s Super Friends franchise, Michael Bell in the 1988 Superman animated series, and by Clancy Brown in the 1990s / 2000s DC animated universe, as well as a 2007 episode of The Batman and the 2009 direct-to-DVD animated feature Superman / Batman: Public Enemies, among others.

Wallace was succeeded by James Miller in November 1997, followed in December 1999 by Ford executive Mark Fields, who has been credited with expanding Mazda's new product lineup and leading the turnaround during the early 2000s.

During the 2000s, Kim Jong Il made no serious effort to revive the Stalinist economic system his father had spent years building.

In the early 2000s, she spent time in Nepal photographing Tibetan children for an exhibition attended by the Dalai Lama.

The club played in pale blue shirts and white shorts, and spent seven seasons in Segunda División in the 2000s.

" Tomei spent several years away from high-profile roles and major motion pictures in the late 1990s, before rising again to prominence in the early 2000s.

MG Rover spent the early part of the 2000s investigating possible ventures with other carmakers in order to develop a new range of cars.

The club have spent the majority of their history in the Football League's third tier, though their most recent success came in the early 2000s when they found themselves competing in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football.

Bagwell spent his fifteen-year career in a Houston uniform and, along with teammate Craig Biggio, was synonymous with the Astros throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s.

Dragon & Tennille spent most of the 1990s and 2000s in the Lake Tahoe area in Nevada, where they had lived for more than a dozen years, and where, during that time, Tennille served as Ambassador for the Arts for the state.

FedExForum, which replaced The Pyramid, and AutoZone Park were both completed in the first five years of the 2000s, and neither structure has yet to pay off any funds spent on its construction.

Porto great Fernando Gomes, and was one of the country's most recognisable offensive players in the 1990s / 2000s ; he consistently scored for both club and country, and was capable of being a good link-up player, accumulating a number of assists throughout his career, which was spent mainly with Benfica, for which he netted 166 goals in 398 games over the course of 12 professional seasons.

Terzani spent the early 2000s ( decade ) in confinement on the mountainous Himalaya's region, in a small hut that he rented in order to meditate and work on his books.

Its spent fuel was placed in CASTOR and CONSTOR storage casks during the 2000s.

The film was restricted to University groups until the 2000s ( decade ), with the internet boom in Brazil — currently the 5th country by number of web users and 1st in time spent in internet per month — that made the film widely available.

On the corner of Elston Hall Lane and Wood Lane is The Woodbine, which spent time under the name the ' Red Rooster ' in the early 2000s before reverting back to The Woodbine.

She spent a long time in the UK for education and after returning to her home country in early 2000s, she started performing regularly in a renowned jazz club in Istanbul with a unique show.

The term has been used to describe the United States commitment to military conflicts including Vietnam in the 1960s-1970s and in Iraq in the 2000s, where dollars spent and lives lost justify continued involvement.

" For much of the 2000s All-4-One has spent their time touring South East Asia, in cities such as Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Seoul, Bangkok, Shanghai, Sydney and Perth Australia.

" Music " also being the longest running number-one spot at Billboard Hot Dance Club Play at the 2000s decade, with spent a longevity five weeks at number one.

McElhanney developed and implemented a program for surveying land titles in landmine-infested parts of Cambodia in the early 2000s and spent two years helping the Canadian Red Cross re-build more than 4000 new homes in Indonesian coastal villages following the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of December, 2004 that devastated Aceh Province.