For the first time since the beginning of the 1980s, GDP growth rates have exceeded population growth, albeit by a small margin.

The increase appears to be stronger between 2003 and 2004 than between 2004 and 2005.

The principal sources of growth in the economy have been agriculture and mining, complemented by the service industry and to a smaller extent manufacturing.

Still, the increase they achieved over the first half of the 1990s was relatively small.

And mind you, it is not getting just a little more for just a little less.

The annual rate of population growth was 3.1 per cent between the 1960 and 1970 censuses, dropping to 2.6 per cent between 1980 and 1990.

After an increase of 16 per cent in 2003, the number of finance related jobs continued to grow slightly in 2004, averaging 2,395 jobs.

Growth is likely to remain at 0.3 in the third quarter, although it will start to pick up slightly at the end of the year, according to the Bank.

Corporate earnings in the first quarter improved sharply.

Net total public debt increased to 10.5 billion in 1996, up by 42 per cent an increase in the same proportion as one year earlier.

This required a substantial increase in the budget, which was currently extremely low.

This is also predicted to grow strongly.

Higher growth of the minimum wage than of the average wage.

When Chinese growth eventually becomes less dependent on investment, growth rates in steel consumption can be expected to fall sharply.

The increase in 2003 was due primarily to the significant increase in the supplementary programme budget.

The relative share of programme funds disbursed through implementing partners has remained stable.

In addition, the small size of the increments would provide the user with bandwidth on demand.

In the year 2000, the figure went up to 705, an increase of about 17 .

275. This sector has experienced rapid and extensive growth.

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.

Although world trade was expected to grow by 7.1 per cent in 1997, Africa s exports increased only marginally, due mainly to price uncertainties and higher interest rates affecting export financing.

Use of quantity control measures associated with technical measures (subcategories 617, 627 and 637) also showed a small increase, from 20.8 per cent to 24.1 per cent.

This began in the 2002 2003 fiscal year, with significant enhancements in 2003 2004.

Low and middle income families will benefit from a notable increase in disposable income.

Following a sharp increase in production in the past two years, the situation was beginning to stabilize.

Now twelve years after independence and over the post independence decade, 1990 1999, real GDP increased by about 39 , from N 6 081 to N 8 453 million while real income per capita increased by about 4.8 , from N 4 520 to N 4 735.

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Other parts of Asia have also experienced growth, with 20 Mt. of expansion, while South American capacity has risen by 8 Mt. and Middle East capacity by over 10 Mt., which is a notable increase for the region.

GDP growth in South East Asia in 2004 exceeded expectations and improved on 2003 growth by the wide margin of 1.5 percentage points.

The value of electronic trade can be expected to increase significantly over the years to come.

The negative growth rate is attributed to the constant number of livestock in 2001 as compared to 2000 when the increase was substantive.

In line with this, while the middle class was the fastest growing segment of the African American population, it had been discovered that the greatest growth actually occurred in the top 40 per cent, while growth in the bottom 60 per cent stagnated if not declined.

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The region's growth indicators were positive the increase in direct foreign investment in 2003 had placed ASEAN among the regions of highest growth in that respect, and the increase was expected to be even bigger in 2004.

The results of the survey had shown that security spending had increased significantly during the reporting period.

The population growth rate has been drastically reduced, falling to 1.47 per cent in 2005 from 3 per cent in the 1970s.

Private capital flows have experienced a substantial growth for several reasons.

Aid has increased significantly.

Primary school enrolment in Kenya has also increased tremendously due to the implementation of free primary education programmes in the last two years.

Because population is expected to increase substantially, especially in developing countries, the Programme of Action recognizes the usefulness of achieving a lower population growth as early as possible.

The budget proposals were already likely to represent absolute growth of over 5.4 per cent.

Singapore's OFDI to China and Indonesia grew significantly in 1993 2003.

In Canada, Internet sales continued to increase substantially reaching 22.9 million in 2004.

Among other countries, Egypt and Libyan Arab Jamahiriya recorded substantial growth in local resources contributions.

In the last two years, credit grew almost twice as fast as GDP, and total social financing grew even faster. Yet GDP growth slowed considerably from an annual average of 10.2 in 2002 2011 suggesting that China may be moving closer to a medium to low speed growth path.