The European Central Bank s policy rate stands at 0.75 , while the eurozone s annual inflation rate is 2.5 .

Despite the low birth rate, the population is still growing at an average annual rate of 0.23 .

India is growing at an annual rate of around 9 China at around 10 .

The effective interest rate, effective annual interest rate, annual equivalent rate (AER) or simply effective rate is the interest rate on a loan or financial product restated from the nominal interest rate as an interest rate with annual compound interest payable in arrears.

But then the link between the monetary base and the rate of inflation was severed. From 2005 to 2015, the monetary base soared at an annual rate of 17.8 , whereas the CPI increased at an annual rate of just 1.9 .

)The GDP grew after 1996 at an annual rate that averaged 3.2 real growth.

BEIJING For three decades, China has been growing at an average annual rate of 9.8 .

Over the last 25 years, Ghana s agricultural sector has grown at an average annual rate of 5 .

Zambia recently issued a 750 million inaugural ten year bond at an annual interest rate of 5.375 .

In 1995 2010, when China s average annual GDP growth rate was 9.9 , fixed asset investment (investment in infrastructure and real estate projects) increased by a factor of 11.2, rising at an average annual rate of 20 .

While the Asian tigers roared ahead, the Indian economy sputtered along, growing at a 2 3 annual rate.

During the past five years, the consumer price index has increased at an annual rate of just 1.5 .

The mean annual flow rate of the Congo River at Inga Falls is 42,000 cubic metres per second.

However, if the average annual rate becomes 2.7 , the population will duplicate at the turn of year 2020.

Greece s unemployment rate already is 10 , and its GDP is already expected to fall at an annual rate of more than 4 , pushing joblessness even higher.

Over the next two years, annual US spending on residential construction roared upward, from 624 billion to 798 billion, the US unemployment rate dropped from 5.7 to 4.6 , and the economy grew at a 3.1 real annual rate.

From 1992 to 2011, labor productivity grew at an average annual rate of 0.9 , the lowest in the OECD.

Growing the economy at an average annual rate of 10 , it turns out, may have been the easy part.

Recently, total exports of business services have been increasing at an average annual rate of about 8 per cent.

The Fed is buying Treasury bonds and long term mortgage backed securities at a rate of 85 billion a month, equivalent to an annual rate of 1,020 billion.

After years of stagnant growth, the German economy has been growing at an annual rate of about 2.5 in 2006.

Consider India, where growth is now running at an annualized rate of 4.5 , down from 7.7 annual growth in 2011.

That is, China s annual GDP growth rate would drop by four percentage points if its exports did not grow at all.

In the 1970 s, US money supply grew at an average annual rate of 9.6 , the highest rate in the previous half century inflation averaged 7.4 , also a half century high.

Final sales to households, businesses, and foreign buyers rose at only a 1.1 annual rate, even slower than earlier in the year.

Moreover, the US Federal Reserve is targeting a 4 annual inflation rate.

Indeed, private consumption in China has been growing in real terms at an annual rate of around 10 for the last seven years.

Most economists now believe that Russia cannot maintain annual GDP growth at a rate above 2 without another sustained rise in oil prices.

Real GDP grew at an average annual rate of less than 3 per year for 1997 and 1998 and only 1 in 1999.

Annual core inflation for Asia (excluding Japan) was running at a 4 rate in late 2010 up about one percentage point from late 2009.

From the first quarter of 2008 through the second period of 2009, consumer demand fell for six consecutive quarters at a 2.2 annual rate.

Not even real GDP growth at a sustained annual rate of 4 is sufficient to increase the share of American adults who have jobs.

These days, it is common to read forecasts predicting that the US economy will grow at a 3 annual rate in the coming year.

According to the UN, the annual population growth rate for 2006 2007 is 1.5 , with the projected population for the year 2015 at 10,121,000.

Although the average annual GDP growth rate for the entire continent has been forecast at roughly 6 in 2012, South Africa s economy is expected to grow by only 3.6 , while Côte d Ivoire is expected to grow at a rate of 8.5 .

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

Since 2003, the market has posted a compound annual growth rate of over 110 .

The current annual growth rate of women in national parliaments is about 0.5 worldwide.

Inflation is another concern. With official figures widely discredited, private analysts estimate that consumer prices are rising at an annual rate of 25 or more.

But this time, the markets were calm, mostly because economists believe that Chile s GDP will continue growing in 2006 at a brisk 6.3 annual rate.

At a minimum, the ECB will probably need to match the 1 trillion annual US rate of quantitative easing, and front load much of it.

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.

Since entering the euro zone in 2001, social welfare expenditures increased at an annual rate that was 3.6 percentage points higher than that of GDP growth.

And the most recent monthly decline corresponded to an annual rate of more than 25 .

With households focused on repairing severely damaged balance sheets, inflation adjusted private consumption has expanded at an anemic 0.5 average annual rate over the past four years.