Examples of using Half of the developing countries in English and their translations into Russian
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In half of the developing countries, the enrolment ratio for boys exceeds that for girls by five percentage points or more.
In some developed countries, the penetration rate is over 100 per cent, while in almost half of the developing countries, it is under 10 per cent.
Half of the developing countries continued to have substantially higher primary school enrolment ratios for boys than girls in 1995.
In some developed countries, the penetration rate for mobile phones is over 100 per cent,while in almost half of the developing countries it is under 10 per cent.
More than half of the developing countries and about two thirds of the least developed countries mentioned infant mortality as a major concern table 4.
There are implementation gaps in achieving the MDGs for sanitation with a half of the developing countries' population having no access to the adequate sanitation.
Hence, more than half of the developing countries have policies to lower fertility;of the least developed countries, 76 per cent have such policies.
Universal primary education(Millennium Development Goal 2)is likely to be achieved in almost half of the developing countries and most emerging economies by 2015.
According to recent estimates, over half of the developing countries continued to be saddled with insurmountable debt burdens that greatly inhibited their progress.
A little over half of the developing countries(51 per cent) have currently established comprehensive national population policies, covering a wide range of topics and issues.
In all, over half of total export earnings are generated by commodities in half of the developing countries in Latin America; three out of five countries in Africa; and one in four countries in South, East Asia and Oceania.
Nearly half of the developing countries called for an even greater emphasis on promoting internal managerial skills and training indigenous counterparts to United Nations experts.
Partly because of the rapid growth expected, more than half of the developing countries consider their population growth to be too high, including two thirds of those in Africa, 56 per cent of those in Oceania and 45 per cent of those in Asia.
For more than half of the developing countries, the database contains trend data for 30 indicators or more, and almost a fourth of the countries have trend data for more than 40 indicators.
Moreover, over half of the developing countries had current account deficits exceeding 6 per cent of GNI in 2008, and HIPCs as a group recorded a current account deficit of 6.8 per cent of their GNI in 2008.
In almost half of the developing countries examined in the Trade and Development Report 1999,4 including exporters not only of commodities but also of manufactures, the trend is one of falling or stagnant growth rates.
However, more than one half of the developing countries, including high-population countries in South Asia and Africa, still have to make major strides before all their children can be provided adequate opportunities for basic education.
For the fourth UNCCD reporting cycle(the first reporting exercise under The Strategy),nearly half of the developed countries did not report.
Further, half of the developed country Parties answered that they are not planning them at all.
Children and young people make up approximately 30 per cent of the world's population and virtually half the population of the developing countries.
In 2007, only about half of the countries developing a new UNDAF chose to prepare a full common country assessment.
By 2011, the vast majority of countries in the developed regions and about one half of the 97 developing countries with available data had implemented programmes to facilitate migrant integration.
It shows that the level of fertility is considered too high by about one half of the Governments of developing countries, almost all of them having policies to lower fertility.
Half of the landlocked developing countries experienced deforestation between 2000 and 2010, with five countries experiencing a decrease in their forest coverage of more than 15 per cent.
Demographic projections suggest that by 2025, 82 per cent of the population of developed countries will live in urban areas, while less than half of the population of developing countries will live there.
One third of the value of total exports and around half of the value of manufactured exports of developing countries originated in sectors which were potentially affected by environmental requirements.
For tropical products,which comprise half the agricultural exports of developing countries, the average tariff reduction was to be 43 per cent.
Although concerns with population ageing are much more pronounced among developed countries, where three quarters of the Governments consider it a major concern, almost one half of developing countries expressed concern over population ageing.
Almost half of the people in developing countries continue to live without access to basic sanitation.
More than one half of the remittances originated in developing countries.