The number went from 102,000 people per decade in the 1780s to 24,000 per decade by the 1860s.

Women's participation rate in peace keeping missions over the past decade is five per cent.

Within a decade, the primary school enrolment rate had more than doubled to 70 per cent.

Worst case estimates have China s real GDP growing at around 7 per year over the next decade.

Nearly a decade later, there are only 10 female Directors (an average increase of one per year).

Temperatures in this decade have not been worse than expected in fact, they have not even been increasing. They have actually decreased by between 0.01 and 0.1 C per decade.

This compares to 0.3 per year in the period 1991 to 2001 and 0.2 in the decade 1981 to 1991.

Over the past decade, the infant mortality rate has been reduced from 126 to 60 deaths per 1,000 live births.

Now we look back at a decade during which the American economy has grown at an average rate of 3.4 per year.

Ninety per cent of children under 5 were immunized against preventable diseases and infant mortality rates had fallen dramatically in the previous decade.

In the case of Africa, while it recorded a real annual growth in GDP of 4.6 per cent in 2004, the highest in almost a decade, this falls short of the 7 per cent per annum growth rate necessary for attaining the Millennium Development Goals.

That cyclical recovery of employment will cause GDP to rise by about 13 over the next decade, or an average of 1.2 per year.

The disaster confirmed a disturbing trend during the past decade the number of people killed by natural disasters has increased by almost 50 per cent.

In particular, exports of ICT products from developing countries grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23.5 per cent over the last decade, while exports from developed countries grew at a CAGR of 10.8 per cent.

Although this is the highest level of expenditure in the last decade, it represents only a modest increase of 3.4 per cent over 2003 ( 9.7 billion).

The official growth rate of China s military expenditure 15 per year over the last decade has increased substantially, and there is much hidden military spending as well.

If reform resumes, there is no reason why Europe should not enjoy a decade of per capita income growth at least as high as that of the US.

Ivan, the most powerful hurricane to hit the region in a decade, strengthened into category 4 as it struck Grenada, bringing sustained winds of 220 kilometres per hour.

The population growth in the past decade in most of the Parties was about 1.5 per cent annually on average, but was higher in a number of countries.

Recent estimates suggest that growth rates need to be doubled to about 7 to 8 per cent per annum and sustained for about a decade if Africa is to meet the Millennium Development Goals (with specific reference to Goal 1, on poverty reduction).

Over the past decade an increase in net enrolment in primary education has been achieved, and in 2001 almost 90 per cent of children were enrolled in primary schools.

In the past decade, that number had fluctuated between 7 and 19 and, at all times, had represented less than 1 per cent of the total number of prisoners.

In the last 15 years, India has pulled more people out of poverty than in the previous 45 roughly 10 million people per year on average in the last decade.

These policies have been pursued for decade after decade and have led nowhere.

Fiscal consolidation equivalent to 1 of GDP per year might bring government debt down toward 60 of GDP the ceiling imposed by the EU s Stability and Growth Pact during the next decade.

It was estimated that manufactured water resources, the keystone of sustainable water management for Israel and the region, would account for 55 per cent of water resources by the end of the decade.

A European Lost Decade?

The Looming Lost Decade

The Sino American Decade

The aggregate numbers are absolutely overwhelming 1.3 million people a week coming to town, decade after decade.

The progress made in Guatemala during the first Decade would help make the Second Decade more successful.

Australia's current goal is a 40 per cent reduction in the per capita fatality rate over the decade to 2010. We have taken a broad based approach to our task, recognizing that substantial gains can only be achieved through a range of measures that address different parts of the road transport system.

The Niger receives just 20 per inhabitant per year, which equals 1.60 per person per month.

A Decade of Hugo Chávez

Europe s Lost and Found Decade

The Middle East s Lost Decade

13 45 per person per year are required to meet basic infrastructural needs, 30 per person per year for basic health needs, 15 per person per year for basic education, and 10 per person per year for other high priority items.

Given the difficulty of reversing these trends, it is difficult to imagine how China could maintain a growth rate anywhere close to 10 for another decade, despite its low per capita income. But there is more.

That represents a substantial turnaround from the past decade, when the unemployment rate rose from 4 to 10 and the labor force participation rate fell from 67 to 65 , reducing GDP by about 1.6 per year.

As things stand, all southern European countries are facing the prospect of a true lost decade according to the International Monetary Fund, their per capita GDP will be lower in 2017 than it was in 2007.

Of the required 100 per person per year, 40 per person per year can reasonably be covered by domestic resource mobilization while 60 per person per year would require international assistance.

During the nearly three decades since the one child policy was introduced, live births have dropped from 22.5 million per year in the early 1980 s to around 16 17 million by the middle of this decade.

Accordingly, sub Saharan Africa, in particular, is off track in meeting the Millennium Development Goals, with the number of people living in absolute poverty in Africa having grown by about 40 per cent over the past decade.

Developing countries constituted the fastest growing sector of the world economy in 2003 2004, continuing a two decade trend that has raised their share of world trade from 20 to 30 per cent of the world total.

America s Growth in the Decade Ahead