The Swiss franc has increased more than 40 against the dollar and therefore more than 30 against the renminbi.

Since 2008, ethanol production has increased by 33 .

The real general salary index has risen 16 per cent.

Between 2001 and 2006, the visible minority population rose by 27.2 percent.

Indeed, annual real GDP rose by 9 in 2010.

Annual investment in equipment increased by 7.7 in 2006, while overall investment, including construction, was up by 5 .

Shale gas contributed almost nothing to US natural gas supplies at the start of the century by last year, its share had soared to 34 , with the US Energy Information Administration predicting a further rise to one half by 2040.

The unemployment rate in the US and the eurozone has increased by about the same amount as well three percentage points.

In the 1990s, the Djibouti economy deteriorated dramatically, with net external assets falling by 40 per cent.

Average incomes have increased by 25 over the last decade a far cry from the zero growth of the past.

For example, the price of coffee declined 18 per cent on world markets between 1975 and 1993, but its consumer price increased 240 per cent.

In January 2010, despite strict administrative control of financial credit lines (the PBC actually imposed credit ceilings on commercial banks), bank lending grew at an annual rate of 29 , on top of already strong expansion in the same period a year earlier.

Japan s stock market reacted favorably as well, rising almost 30 since the vote.

The three percentage point difference implies that the real inflation adjusted renminbi dollar exchange rate rose 9 over the past year (i.e., 6 nominal appreciation plus the 3 inflation difference.)

The S P 500 is up 87 in real terms since March 9 of that year.

Prices per acre of farmland in Iowa and Illinois rose more than 10 over the past year.

Annual GDP rose by 3.2 and growth of final sales jumped to a remarkable 7.1 year on year rate.

From 2002 to 2007, the unemployment rate increased by 65 (270,500 unemployed citizens in 2002, 448,600 unemployed citizens in 2007).

Since 2005, US budget deficits have increased by another 6 of GDP, while China s external reserves have increased by 2 trillion.

By 2003, the figures for both groups had risen by almost 10 per cent , and the girl boy parity rate was 0.92.

Mr. Boolell (Mauritius), referring to question 5, said that female employment had risen by 21 per cent from 1993 to 2003, as compared with only 8 per cent for men.

To curb inflation, Argentina decided to suspend the sale of wheat to its principal export market, Brazil, where the price of bread had increased 20 over the last 12 months.

The index has risen 69 in real (inflation adjusted) terms since 2004, with most of the increase coming after 2007.

Real GDP rose by 5 in the fourth quarter of 2009, reflecting the end of the decline in inventories.

In 2004 2005, the caseload rose to 4,330 reflecting an increase of approximately nine percent.

Starting from 1999, the first year of recession, fiscal deficits rose substantially, alongside the public debt to GDP ratio.

Crude steel production in the first four months of 2005 increased by 7 per cent compared to the same period in 2004.

History GDP per capita in the Palestinian territories rose by 7 per year from 1968 to 1980 but slowed during the 1980s.

Total sales of consumer goods increased by 14.8 in 2010 and domestic fixed investment grew by 19.5 , both in real terms.

In Egypt, for example, if the number of female workers were raised to the same level as that of men, the country s GDP could grow by 34 .

To be sure, Chinese military expenditures, up more than 12 this year, have been growing even more rapidly than its economy.

The continent s economy, after all, has been experiencing its strongest growth in three decades, with annual GDP up by 6 in the past three years.

In the same period, nominal GDP soared by 348 in Brazil, 346 in China, 331 in Russia, and 203 in India, also in US dollars.

With its population set to contract by 0.5 annually over the next 30 years, even if per capita income in Greece were to rise at the German rate of 1.5 per year, the debt would be difficult to service.

True, much of that was due to a sharp decline in imports but even the growth rate of final sales to domestic purchasers rose at a healthy 3.4 pace.

UNFPA technical cooperation rose by 16.5 per cent, from 273 million in 2003 to 318 million in 2004.

As regards trade in services, world exports in commercial services expanded by 16 per cent to reach a total value of 2.1 trillion in 2004.

In the US, economic performance improved only marginally in 2012, with annual GDP rising by 2.3 , up from 1.8 in 2011.

The key point here is that the euro price of oil would be the same as it is today. And the dollar price of oil would have gone up 56 .

Total contributions to UNICEF over the period 2002 2004 grew by 36 per cent, from 1,454 million to 1,978 million.

The total voluntary contributions to the Foundation increased by almost 30 per cent, from 26 million in 2003 to 33 million in 2004.

As a result, real personal consumer expenditures rose at an annual rate of just about 1 in January, down from the previous quarter s 4 increase.

Population From the year 2001 to 2009, the population grew to 30,000 inhabitants from just a small prospector camp, as the price of gold rose 235 in the same time.

This pool of resources has increased by 10 per cent from 1 066 billion in 2003 to 1 180 billion in 2004.

Among the group of developed countries, the United States of America was once more the main engine for global growth, with real GDP increasing by more than 4 per cent.