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The population of the island in 2008 was 118, 000 and the annual growth rate is 0. 5 %.
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The bulk of the population originates from immigrants who came to the island since the colonial times, mainly of Bengali, Hindustani and Tamil backgrounds.
Ovid, on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the time of the birth of Aeacus, and states that, in the reign of Aeacus, Hera, jealous of Aegina, ravaged the island bearing the name of the latter by sending a plague or a fearful dragon into it, by which nearly all its inhabitants were carried off, and that Zeus restored the population by changing the ants into men.
There are over 30 Dayak sub-ethnic groups living in Borneo, making the population of this island one of the most varied of human social groups.
The island then was not the popular tourist destination it later became ; the author George Woodbury described it as " no city of homes ; it was a place of temporary sojourn and refreshment for a literally floating population ," continuing, " The only permanent residents were the piratical camp followers, the traders, and the hangers-on ; all others were transient.
Saumarez's convoy of prizes stopped first at Malta, where Saumarez provided assistance to a rebellion on the island among the Maltese population.
Introduction of pigs by guano miners at the beginning of the 20th century reduced the crab population on the island, which in turn allowed grassland to gradually cover about 80 percent of the land surface ( Sachet, 1962 ).
The local Indian population left their mark also on the language with some 400 Taíno terms and place-names of the island.
Cyprus: population growth 1961-2003 ( numbers for the entire island, excluding in recent years some 150, 000 Turkish immigrants residing in Northern Cyprus ).
Population density figures conceal a great disparity between the republic's most crowded island, Nzwani, which had a density of 470 persons per square kilometer in 1991 ; Ngazidja, which had a density of 250 persons per square kilometer in 1991 ; and Mwali, where the 1991 population density figure was 120 persons per square kilometer.
By comparison, estimates of the population density per square kilometer of the Indian Ocean's other island microstates ranged from 241 ( Seychelles ) to 690 ( Maldives ) in 1993.
A comprehensive Chinese-assisted treatment campaign has apparently eliminated malaria from the Comorian island of Moheli ( population 36, 000 ).
Crete is the most populous island in Greece with a population of more than 500, 000 people.
The Cook Islands was not the only island group visited by the traders, but Penrhyn Atoll was their first port of call and it has been estimated that three-quarters of the population was taken to Callao, Peru.
The January 2007 estimated population of the island was 281, 000, while the figure for the March 1999 census, when most of the studies – though not the linguistic survey work referenced in this article – were performed, was about 261, 000 ( see under Corsica ).
The 2001 population of 341, 000 speakers on the island given by Ethnologue exceeds either census.
As the population of the Maldives is separated across around 200 inhabited islands, there is a cable TV operator for nearly every island.
It is the fourth largest island in the Caribbean with a population of people mainly from African descent.
Dominica is the only island in the eastern Caribbean to retain some of its pre-Columbian population — the Carib Indians — about 3, 000 of whom live on the island's east coast.
Home to a diverse population hailing from across the Japanese archipelago the island witnessed the birth of a unique culture with the drum at the center of it all.
The Greek island of Syros, whose population is divided almost equally between Catholics and Orthodox, is one of the few places where the two Churches share a common date for Easter, with the Catholics accepting the Orthodox date-a practice helping considerably in maintaining good relations between the two communities.
The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) by BirdLife International because it supports a large and diverse population of breeding seabirds and other waterbirds.
An example of an introductory population model describes a closed population, such as on an island, where immigration and emigration does not take place.
In these island models, the rate of population change is described by:
population and 2008
: 6. 14 deaths / 1, 000 population ( 2008 est.
: Urban population: 30 % of total population ( 2008 )
: 4. 13 deaths / 1, 000 population ( 2008 est.
: urban population: 92 % of total population ( 2008 )
This graph shows the proportion of world population in extreme poverty 1981 – 2008 according to the World Bank.
The total Swiss population change in 2008 ( from all sources, including moves across municipal borders ) was an increase of 278 and the non-Swiss population increased by 1138 people.
: Total population: 94. 9 % ( 2007 / 2008 )
The proportion of the population aged 15 and over attaining academic degrees grew rapidly since 2001, doubling and reaching 16. 7 % by 2008.
* EU27 population projections 2008-2060, Eurostat Newsrelease 119 / 2008, 26 August 2008.
A 2008 New York Times report claims that Yemen has over 1 million of these discriminated and ostracized Al-Akhdam people, that is about 5 percent of Yemen population.
Urban population: 69 % of total population ( 2008 )
:* Domestic: fixed-line density is about 2 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular subscribership has been increasing and in 2008 stood at about 55 percent of the population
In 2008, archaeologists working at the site of Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia uncovered a small bone fragment from the fifth finger of a juvenile member of a population now referred to as Denisova hominins, or simply Denisovans.
Without Abkhazia and South Osetia, the population in the regions controlled by the central government of Georgia was 4, 321, 500 in 2005 and 4, 382, 100 in 2008 ( compare the 2008 figure with the CIA estimate of 4, 630, 841 for all of Georgia, including Abkhazia and South Osetia ).
The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of and has a total population of 594, 582 as of 1 January 2008, which ranks it as the fourth most populous in Belgium.
The total Swiss population change in 2008 ( from all sources, including moves across municipal borders ) was an increase of 135 and the non-Swiss population increased by 3181 people.
Two Pacific Ocean populations are known to exist: one of not more than 130 individuals ( according to the most recent population assessment in 2008 ) whose migratory route is presumed to be between the Sea of Okhotsk and southern Korea, and a larger one with a population between 20, 000 and 22, 000 individuals in the eastern Pacific travelling between the waters off Alaska and Baja California Sur.
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In the early days of a homogeneous population, the public school was quite satisfactory.
They, however much they were in disagreement with the late Victorians over the method by which Britain was Germanized, agreed with them that the end result was the complete extinction of the previous Celtic population and civilization.
In Gaul the Saxon element on its Saxon Shore was plainly visible because there the Saxons were an intrusive element in the population.
An aggressor would use an agent against which there was a minimal naturally acquired or artificially induced immunity in a target population.
No epidemic was initiated nor was one expected because the population in City A was not lousy.
On the other hand, a similar attack might have been made on City B whose population was known to be lousy.
In 1922 a continuous registration of the whole indigenous population was instituted by ordinance of the Governor-General, and the periodic compilation of these records was ordered.
The sampling program was instituted before the principles of probability sampling were widely recognized in population studies.
The distinction between domiciled ( de jure ) and present ( de facto ) population was not clearly defined.
But the information on the dynamics of population was often quite misleading.
About 11 percent of the total population was covered in the new investigation, as compared with about 3 percent in the previous inquiries.
It was possible to maintain aerobic conditions in the pond by regular additions of sodium nitrate until the temperature decreased and the algae population changed from blue-green to green algae.
Negro population in the U.S. has increased 25 per cent while the white population was growing by 18 per cent.
Swift was especially insulted by projects that tried to fix population and labor issues with a simple cure-all solution.
According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 19 082 000 in 2010, compared to only 4 148 000 in 1950.
Most of the population lives in the western and northwestern parts of the country, where the two major cities, Yerevan and Gyumri ( which was called Aleksandropol ' during the tsarist period ), are located.
Most of Armenia's ethnic Azeri population was deported in 1988 – 1989 and remain refugees, largely in Azerbaijan.
The Germanic elites were Arians, and the majority population was Nicene.
The low number of abnormalities compares favourably with the health condition of a Majungasaurus population of which it in 2007 was established that 19 % of individuals showed bone pathologies.
In a culture that set a high value on oratory and public performances of all kinds, in which the production of books was very labor-intensive, the majority of the population was illiterate, and where those with the leisure to enjoy literary works also had slaves to read for them, written texts were more likely to be seen as scripts for recitation than as vehicles of silent reflection.
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