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.

Since then, however, the TFP growth rate has fallen by almost half.

Very significant rate of urbanisation was observed in the second half of the 20th century.

Similarly, the personal saving rate, at 4.25 in the first half of 2013, is less than half the 9.3 norm over the 1970 1999 period.

The positive trend continued during the first half of 2008, but the rate of increase slackened.

Although we have successfully brought the population growth rate down, the task is only half complete.

In the first half of 2004, cases were received at twice the rate they were adjudicated.

After a half decade of 5 growth, the continent s growth rate is expected to halve in 2009.

It is that service sector productivity growth has run at barely half the rate of the United States.

In the second half of 2011, China s growth rate could fall further, but there will be no hard landing.

Furthermore, the growth rate in China s less developed eastern regions amounts to less than half of the national average.

With that strategy, we aim, by 2009, to reduce the unemployment rate from 9.5 per cent to 5.1 per cent and to cut the poverty rate by half, to 8.1 percent.

In 1920 the mortality rate among people under 65 had decreased six fold to half the mortality rate of people over 65, but still 92 of deaths occurred in people under 65.

The Aichi targets call for cutting by half the rate of loss of the planet s natural habitats, including forests, by 2020.

The rate of bycatch in the Atlantic longline fleet, for example, was found to be one half of the total catch.

But the first half growth rate looks set to come in closer to 1.5 at best, even below 2011 s dismal 1.7 .

But the Swiss reported losses of 14 billion francs in the first half of 2010, without succeeding in stemming exchange rate appreciation.

This means that the dollar s 5 fall so far this year will add only half a percentage point to the inflation rate.

Arguing that it could increase Europe s annual economic growth rate by half a percentage point, they declared that formal negotiations would start quickly.

WASHINGTON, DC Central banks around the world have finally reacted to the global financial crisis by engineering a coordinated half point interest rate cut.

(Since it began revaluing its exchange rate in July 2005, the adjustment has been half or more of what most experts think is required.)

Today, Pakistan is Asia s worst performing economy. Its GDP growth rate of 3 is half that of Bangladesh and one third that of India.

At its most recent policy meeting, the ECB left its policy rate unchanged, citing inflation half a percentage point above the official 2 target.

In the first half of 2010 the migration rate even further increased in the first seven months when over 8,000 undocumented workers were caught.

But the rate of increase in payroll employment fell in March to less than half of the rate recorded in previous months, and the number of workers claiming unemployment benefits recently jumped to a four month high.

Indeed, Pakistan s rate of economic growth is the slowest on the South Asian mainland one half that of Bangladesh and one third that of India.

Whereas unemployment in the US has been rising for one and a half years, Germany currently is enjoying its lowest unemployment rate in 16 years.

Since 2000, Spain has experienced high population growth as a result of immigration flows, despite a birth rate that is only half the replacement level.

Translated to another system of units, this is nearly the same as the decay rate of cobalt 56 (56Co), whose half life is 77 days.

Specifically, MDG1 set a target of reducing the extreme poverty rate in half by 2015, a goal that was met 5 years ahead of schedule.

When purchased new a typical Cf 252 neutron source emits between 1 107 to 1 109 neutrons per second but, with a half life of 2.6 years, this neutron output rate drops to half of this original value in 2.6 years.

China currently saves and invests half of its GDP, but, as its workforce shrinks in the coming years, its investment rate is likely to fall sharply.

Similarly, the personal saving rate, at just 3.5 in the four months ending in November 2012, was less than half the 7.9 average of 1970 99.

Since 1980, average real hourly compensation has increased at an annual rate of 1 , or half the rate of productivity growth. Wage gains have also become considerably more unequal, with the biggest increases claimed by the top 10 of earners.

Although the rate was down from 9 a year ago, about half of the change reflected a rise in the number of people who have stopped looking for work, rather than an increase in job creation and the employment rate.

The top tax rate on wage income was cut in half during her tenure as prime minister, falling from over 80 when she took office to 40 .

For the last five years, Pakistan s annual GDP growth has averaged just 3 half the rate needed to absorb two million new labor force entrants every year.

Labor market experts thus consider the unemployment rate a potentially misleading indicator, because a youth unemployment rate of 50 does not mean that half of the young population is unemployed. That is why one should look at the unemployment ratio the percentage of the unemployed in the reference population rather than at the unemployment rate.

Unemployment is around 10 (still less than half the Spanish rate), and annual GDP growth is around 1 (Spain s growth rate is negative). But the moods in the two countries, as well as their perceptions of Europe and their role in it, contrast starkly.

India s poverty rate (an indicator that is admittedly both conceptually and practically difficult to measure) fell by half between 1981 and 2010, to just under 30 a remarkable achievement.

China s outward FDI is poised to increase sharply again in 2010, judging by the first half of the year, when it was rising at an annual rate of 44 .

If the US unemployment rate had started to follow such a path after peaking in the second half of 2009, it would now stand at 8.3 , rather than 8.9 .

It was a Cuba of half a million unschooled children, 10,000 unemployed schoolteachers and a jobless rate of 24 per cent, with young people the majority of the unemployed.

Eritrea has half, while Yemen has half.

GDP has nearly tripled over the past 20 years, but, with real wages rising at less than half this rate, growth has become decoupled from the fate of ordinary citizens.