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.

Furthermore, the annual population growth rate is expected to be 1.7 per cent for 1991 2001.

Growth rate ( )

The rate of population growth was expected to level off in the twenty third century, by which time the world population was expected to be about 11 billion.

Total growth rate

For the subregion as a whole, the collective GDP growth rate is expected to ease by around 0.7 per cent in 2005.

Maximum rate of growth

Minimum rate of growth

1.2.1 Size, Growth Rate and Composition

(ii) Faster rate of economic growth

Ireland has experienced very high growth rates of gross national product in the 1990s, an average rate of approximately 4.5 per cent being expected for this decade, bringing economic growth to a historical high.

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

The growth rate has dropped to 1.2 per cent, while the population growth rate has remained at 3 per cent.

(THOUSANDS) AVERAGE ANNUAL GROWTH RATE TOTAL POPULATION

In tandem with an expected fall in world economic growth in 2005, growth in international trade is also expected to slow in real terms.

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.

We needed to reduce the population growth rate.

Population level (millions) and compound annual growth rate

The rate of increase approximated estimated population growth.

The rate of increase approximated estimated population growth.

The annual population growth rate was 0.04 per cent.

There was a negative population growth rate in 1990.

The rate of increase approximately matched estimated population growth.

Assuming an annual average rate of five per cent growth in GDP, this goal represents a 22 per cent annual growth rate for IDE investment.

A rate of return slightly above unity is expected on these projects.

The annual natural growth rate is estimated at 3.1 per cent, but the actual population growth rate for the past decade has been 5 per cent.

As expected, the rate of reported convictions, which varied significantly, was lower than the rate of reported investigations or prosecutions.

This trend was expected to continue, and developing countries were expected to become the engine of world economic growth.

This is the growth rate of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Its GDP growth rate is the lowest in the world.

A growth rate of 1.7 per cent was shown for NEPAD, which was above the 0.1 per cent average growth rate for the budget as a whole.

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.

Moreover, if conditions in the eurozone continue to deteriorate, Asia could be more severely affected. Already, spillover effects from trade and financial transmission channels are beginning to take their toll China s GDP growth rate in the second quarter of 2012 averaged 7.6 , reflecting a significant slowdown, and India s growth rate is expected to decline to roughly 6 this year.

Questions had been asked about the growth rate, in particular whether a zero real growth rate provided an adequate level of funding for the priorities of the Organization.

Given the current expected inflation rate of 2 , the real rate on ten year bonds is still less than 1 . Past experience implies that the real rate will rise to at least 2 , taking the total nominal interest rate to more than 4 , even if expected inflation remains at just 2 .

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.

This growth was expected to continue over the short to medium term.

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

Urban growth in developing countries is proceeding at an unprecedented rate.

This implies a deceleration of the growth rate of public indebtedness.

In 1997 population growth rate was estimated at 0.6 per cent.

IMF growth forecasts released during the Davos meeting highlight the extent to which the world has become decoupled GDP growth in the advanced industrial countries is expected to be 1.4 this year, while developing countries continue to grow at a robust 5.5 annual rate.

But, since then, the IMF has steadily pared its economic projections. Indeed, this year s expected GDP growth rate of 3.3 which was revised downward in the most recent WEO will probably not be met.

The highest growth rate was expected from digital electronic products (e.g. audio and video markets, and the digital part of traditional consumer electronics), while the analog consumer electronics market could almost disappear by 2008.

The GPS market had shown an exponential growth rate from 40 million in 1989 to 460 million in 1993, and was expected to grow to 5 billion to 6 billion by the year 2000.