The increase in percentage of the girls going to school, the increase in female literacy rate, the increase in the percentage of women in the labour force, the decrease in population growth rate and the fertility rate, while in some cases not very impressive numerically, point to a change in the right direction.

There had also been a considerable decrease in the dropout rate among women.

You know, everything says, here's the growth rate of China, here's the growth rate of the U.S., here it goes straight line.

She said the drop in the fertility rate could be explained by later marriage, delayed pregnancy or use of contraception but felt the rate of use of contraceptives of 33 per cent was still not high enough normally economic growth would lead to a significant decrease in fertility rates.

The company's rate reduction follows a 10 percent decrease for onshore contractors in 2014.

People aren't changing their behavior enough to decrease the growth in the epidemic.

The answer depends on two key variables the discount rate and future earnings growth. A lower discount rate and or a higher rate of expected earnings growth would justify higher equity valuations.

This is the growth rate of CO2 in the atmosphere.

1.2.1 Size, Growth Rate and Composition

Table 1.6 Total birth rate and population growth rate in Viet Nam ( )

In terms of service export, the service export continued its rapid growth momentum since this year, and the export growth rate was 5.7 percentage points higher than the import growth rate from January to August.

We needed to reduce the population growth rate.

So they calculate the percent annual growth rate of the economy.

Few would argue against China s need for slower but better growth. The problem is that if China wishes to lower the GDP growth rate to 7.5 in 2012, from 9.2 in 2011, without worsening the growth pattern by raising the high investment rate even further, the annual growth rate of investment must be equal to or less than 7.5 .

The annual rate of increase in the EAP is 4 per cent, for exceeding the rate of growth of the total population.

Total birth rate and natural population growth rate continued to fall, reaching the levels of 2.13 and 1.47 respectively in 2003.

Although Africa has recorded a marked improvement in its recent economic performance, its growth rate still falls short of the target growth rate of 7 per cent per annum necessary to attain the MDGs.

What this shows is that the rate of growth of our emissions is accelerating.

Empirical evidence shows that there is no invariant relationship between the rate of growth and the rate of poverty reduction, and that even in a context of faster growth, complementary policies specifically targeting poverty are required.

The organisation suffered a noticeable decrease in its spending rate for 2004 (83.6 per cent) as compared to that of 2002 (88.6 per cent).

In the last decade, global Internet penetration rate has risen from 21.7 to 48.8 . In developing countries, the growth rate of the Internet penetration rate is double that of developed countries.

Compared to countries with very slow growth rates, countries with reasonably high growth rates should borrow. But when a country s growth rate continues to increase, its saving rate would increase faster than its investment rate, so it is more likely to run a current account surplus.

Since 2013 however, the online retail sales growth rate has decelerated from more than 50 to less than 40 for the first time in 2015 in 2016, the growth rate was 26.2 .

All the rates had a tendency to decrease in 2001 when compared to 2000, with the exception of chronic diseases of digestive systems, whose rate in increasing.

Last year, it achieved an impressive economic growth rate of 20 per cent.

The target growth rate was met by only six countries in 2004.

The huge surge in the GDP growth rate of the more diversified economies brought overall per capita income up to its highest rate of 2.7 per cent.

No less important are sex education programmes, aimed at reducing the number of teen pregnancies and at bringing the Nicaraguan people, especially young people, to a point where the demographic growth rate is lower than the rate of economic growth.

This was undoubtedly due to the soaring population growth rate and the policy of democratization of education.

Today, for a given rate of GDP growth, the corresponding inflation rate is substantially higher than it was over the past two decades. In other words, inflation especially house price inflation has become an important constraint on growth.

Even more fundamental arithmetic lies at the core of the debt quandary. The tax rate required to fund social welfare benefits depends on three factors the dependency ratio (the ratio of recipients to taxpayers) the replacement rate (the ratio of benefits to average wages) and the economic growth rate (roughly, productivity plus population growth).

What is in common for women in the reproductive age is the decrease in fertility rate due to frequent intentional abortions, usually the only way of family planning.

During the period 2000 to 2003, the annual average rate of economic growth, as measured by the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) was 2.1 per cent.

Other examples include use of additives in cattle feed to increase milk production or growth rates and decrease methane production per unit beef.

Excluding China, there was a general slowdown in growth of service imports by developing countries, mirroring a lower growth rate in their exports.