Studies examining falls in this population show that 74-93 % of patients have fallen at least once in the past year and up to 60 % admit to fear of falling.

Despite a fairly effective family planning program that has been in place since the 1960s, the population is expected to grow to around 264 million by 2020 and 308 million by 2050, falling to sixth behind Pakistan and Brazil sometime before 2050.

Japan experienced net population loss in recent years due to falling birth rates and almost no net immigration, despite having one of the highest life expectancies in the world at 81. 25 years of age as of 2006.

* 2000 – Lansing's population experiences its greatest drop in its history, falling over 6 % over the preceding decade to 119, 128.

The annual population growth rate in 1960 was 2. 7 percent, rising to a high of 3. 6 percent in 1970, but falling to 1. 9 percent in 1975.

The population hit a historic peak at 148, 689, 000 in 1991, just before the breakup of the Soviet Union, but then began a decade-long decline, falling at a rate of about 0. 5 % per year due to declining birth rates, rising death rates and emigration.

In 1955 approximately 41. 2 % of the population was under fifteen years of age, a percentage that rose to 43. 5 % in 1966 before falling to 38. 3 % in 1975, 34. 2 % in 1980, and 29. 9 % in 1985.

Each planter was allocated one of 130 pieces of land, but the Company had great difficulty attracting new immigrants, the population falling to only 66, including 18 slaves, by 1670.

The population is relatively young with 26. 6 % falling in the 0-14 age bracket.

The population of Zimbabwe has grown during the twentieth century in accordance with the model of a developing country with high birth rates and falling death rates, resulting in relatively high population growth rate ( around 3 % or above in the 1960s and early 1970s ).

Several factors are currently slowing the rate of global expansion of wheat production: population growth rates are falling while wheat yields continue to rise, and the better economic profitability of other crops such as soybeans and maize, linked with investment in modern genetic technologies, has promoted shifts to other crops.

These hallucinations occur just before falling asleep, and affect a surprisingly high proportion of the population ( in one survey 37 % of the respondents experienced them twice a week ).

The Code contemplates the whole population as falling into three classes: the amelu, the mushkenu and the ardu.

The population of Shepton Mallet was fairly stable throughout the 19th century and first part of the 20th century: in 1801, the population was 5, 104 and in 1851 it was only slightly more at 5, 117, though in 1901 it had swelled to 5, 446, before falling back to 5, 260 in 1951.

Its population rank in 2000 was second in the state, closely ahead of Fairbanks ; recent estimates have Juneau falling back to third, as it was in the 1960 – 90 counts.

The school system has about 700 students in total and struggles due to the falling ( and aging ) population.

The increase in population peaked before World War I, falling slowly in the aftermath until World War II began an exodus from London towards the new towns under the Abercrombie Plan for London ( 1944 ).

Kennington is essentially a multi-ethnic area with a mixed and varied population, all falling within different geodemographic strands.

By 1910, gold production was falling and by 1920 the town of Tonopah had less than half the population it had fifteen years earlier.

The Brookings Institute studies ranked Union City among the 92 most economically depressed localities in the United States, with 18. 1 % of the population and 27. 5 % of the children falling below the poverty line.

The town also witnessed a slow population decline during the same period, falling to low of about 1, 000 in 1975.

Several authors, including Ioan Petru Culianu, have drawn a parallel between Eugène Ionesco's Absurdist play of 1959, Rhinoceros, which depicts the population of a small town falling victim to a mass metamorphosis, and the impact fascism had on Ionesco's closest friends ( Eliade included ).

Outside the office windows, twenty-four stories above Wall Street, a light rain was falling.

But there was one thing that he had to stress, and that was that the contribution to the general church expenses, the dollar money, had been seriously falling behind in this church, and that must be looked after immediately.

Then Katie stumbled, and again he was falling, falling!!

His mother was nudging him, but he was still falling.

The railroads have responded by adding 20,000 more box cars with doors 12' or wider for forklift unloading ( a 21% increase while the total number of box cars was falling 6% ) and by cutting their freight rates twice on lumber shipped in heavily loaded cars.

Because of the falling characteristic of the rectifier, no ballast resistor was required for stability of operation.

Being with him was like being swept away by a torrent of falling stones.

It was falling over her head when a branch of a bush caught it and it fell in front of her on the rock.

The cleansing tissues she had been using had been falling on the floor, and he got up and picked up one, then another, hoping she would notice what he was doing.

There was dignity and beauty in the little white flakes falling through the blue night.

Attendance at Alcott's school was falling.

While working on a second book, Alcott and Peabody had a falling out and Conversations with Children on the Gospels was prepared with help from Peabody's sister Sophia, published at the end of December 1836.

In England, the lost r was often changed into ( schwa ), giving rise to a new class of falling diphthongs.

The Grothendieck Festschrift was a three-volume collection of research papers to mark his sixtieth birthday ( falling in 1988 ), and published in 1990.

Although initially victorious at the Battle of Pea Ridge ( Elkhorn Tavern ) in March, Pike's unit was defeated later in a counterattack, after falling into disarray.

There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.

His 250-mile ( 400-kilometre ) march to prevent Vienna falling into enemy hands was a masterpiece of deception, meticulous planning and organisation.

On 10 August, Eugene sent an urgent dispatch reporting that he was falling back to Donauwörth – " The enemy have marched.

Routine immunization with BCG was withdrawn in 2005 because of falling cost-effectiveness: whereas in 1953, 94 children would have to be immunized to prevent one case of TB, by 1988, the annual incidence of TB in the UK had fallen so much, 12, 000 children would have to be immunized to prevent one case of TB.

This was a popular method of stopping a cavalry charge, as a falling horse often destroyed the cohesion of the enemy's line.

In 1973, Chile was in shambles – inflation was hundreds of percents, the country had no foreign reserves, and GDP was falling.