At present, 17 percent of the city's 80,000 teachers lack certification.

By contrast, in the country as a whole, 14 percent of the population, or 34 million people, lack medical insurance and get no government subsidy.

In 1990 around 40 percent (2.2 billion) of the world's people still lacked power.

Nearly 15 percent of the region's 2.1 million residents lack health insurance.

Even with the new program, 60 percent of the state's 248,000 uninsured children would still lack health insurance coverage.

More than 20 percent of homes lack such fire protection devices.

He noted, for instance, that 15 percent of Americans still lacked health insurance.

He noted that only 5 percent of the island still lacks full phone service.

In the 1982 version of the study, 23 percent lacked such care.

From these data it appears that Texas leads the states with almost 25 percent of its population lacking health insurance.