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.

Individuals are identified in the registry by means of a national identification number ( the so-called kennitala ), a number composed of the date of birth in the format and four additional digits, the third of which is a control digit, and the last of which indicates the century in which the person was born ( 9 for the 1900s and 0 for the 2000s ).

In the 2000s, he composed music for the Showtime Network program Soul Food.

Themes in the United States that have become associated with a sport include Johnny Pearson's " Heavy Action " ( used for many years as an intro to Monday Night Football ), " Roundball Rock " ( composed by John Tesh as the theme for the NBA on NBC during the 1990s and early 2000s ), " Bugler's Dream " ( used in ABC and NBC's coverage of the Olympics ) and the theme to ESPN's nightly sports highlight show, SportsCenter.

Also, the Italian progressive band Ainur have composed several album inspired by Silmarillion stories in early 2000s.

With a population composed of a roughly balanced combination of Roman Catholics and Protestants, together amounting to more than 95 %, the population without any religious affiliation has grown to more than 10 % in the 2000s, while the Muslim population grew from practically nil to some 4 % over the past decades.

The district also attained notoriety from the early 2000s with gang violence perpetrated by African gangs, partly composed of exiled child soldiers like Black Démolition.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, electronica music was increasingly used as background scores for television advertisements, initially for automobiles.

The rock musical has seen a resurgence in the late 1990s and the 2000s, with shows by composers like Elton John ( Aida, 1998 ), as well as a number of successful jukebox musicals with rock scores.

Throughout the early 2000s, its test scores tracked consistently above the national average for England, although slightly below those for the Hertfordshire LEA.

Through multiple school reforms in the early and mid 2000s, Framingham High dramatically increased their MCAS ( Massachusetts state graduation assessment ) scores and the number of students taking Advanced Placement courses increased.

In Rio and São Paulo, until the early 2000s, the division was more than half a point, and there have been years when there was also the elimination of major score given to each school, the very removal of the lower scores have also and has ceased to be part of the rule several times.

In the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ), calls for clarification of what constitutes a culture, of how an observer knows where his or her own culture ends and another begins, and other crucial topics in writing anthropology were heard.

From the 2000s many Chinese have settled and started up small businesses, while at least as many have come as workforce for large ( construction or other ) enterprises.

Atari also used the game for its other late ' 90s and 2000s anthology series.

In the 2000s, batsmen Justin Langer, Damien Martyn and Matthew Hayden became noted players for Australia.

In the 2000s, " Absalon " was adopted as the name for a class of Royal Danish Navy vessels, and the lead vessel of the class.

In the early 2000s, Bulgaria had some 37, 300 kilometers of roads, all but 3, 000 of which were paved but nearly half of which ( 18, 000 kilometers ) fell into the lowest international rating for paved roads.

A major reason for the motorway construction " mania " of the 2000s is a previous political halt of the major Croatian highway project, today's A1, in the 1970s and 1980s under former Yugoslavia.

By the early 2000s, the CD largely replaced the audio cassette player as standard equipment in new automobiles, with 2010 being the final model year for any car in the US to have a factory-equipped cassette player.

Also in the 2000s, My Chemical Romance released four concept albums, the most popular being Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge and The Black Parade.

Services to Tasmania and the Northern Territory took longer to start, not until the mid 2000s when the digital satellite pay television service had picked up momentum and was beginning to be used for metropolitan installs and not just rural installs.

Many instances of video or digital playback occurred during the early 2000s and claims to significance for the development of the industry vary.

Darcsyde's projects include Trauma ( out of print since early 2000s ), a Corum supplement ( published 2001 ) for the fifth edition of the Chaosium Stormbringer ( aka Elric!

This was reversed in the 2000s, when Tarja Halonen and Erkki Tuomioja made Finland's official policy to resist other EU members ' plans for common defense.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

Sky Sports used the song as the intro for Super League in the late 2000s and the X Factor frequently use the song for the contestants ' introductions.

The start of the 2000s saw a quiet period for the genre.

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, HTTPS began to see widespread use for protecting page authenticity on all types of websites, securing accounts and keeping user communications, identity and web browsing private.

Long stylized bangs were very common for emos, scene kids and younger indie kids in the 2000s and early 2010s, among people of both genders.

The liberal conservative LDP was in power from 1955 to 2009, except for a very short-lived coalition government formed from its opposition parties in 1993 ; the largest opposition party was the social liberal Democratic Party of Japan in the late 1990s and late 2000s.