From 1965 to 1997, Arab population growth drove demand for agricultural development, leading to a doubling of land under irrigation.

As a result of high fertility rates in Africa, the UN Population Division predicts a doubling of Africa's population from around 900 million today to around 1.8 billion in 2050.

This yields an annual interest rate of 12 60 20 , and hence a doubling time of 100 growth 20 growth per year 5 years.

Plano is a city in Kendall County, Illinois, United States near Aurora, with a population of 10,856 at the 2010 census, nearly doubling its size from the 2000 census.

In anticipation of a doubling of its urban population over the next 20 years, it had focused on mobilizing credit and other forms of financing for private housing construction.

At the same time, the population was evacuated again.

Despite a doubling of its balance sheet, to a little more than 3 trillion ( 4 trillion), Europe has slipped back into recession for the second time in four years.

In the capital, Baghdad, the center of so much sectarian violence, the numbers were even more impressive, with the share of the population who saw themselves as Iraqis, above all doubling, from 30 to 60 .

It remains of very serious concern, however, that HIV AIDS has now exceeded the benchmark of a generalized epidemic, with a doubling of the prevalence rate among the adult population over the past two years.

The European Union is committed to doubling its development assistance by 2010.

The growth of Muslim population at this time was recorded as 3.88 compared to 1.13 for the general Australian population.

The Chinese economy has been doubling in size every ten years since 1978.

Incentives to make regular migration pathways work better will include immediately increasing Australia s annual humanitarian intake, and doubling it over five years (to 27,000), while also doubling financial support for regional immigration capacity building.

Population The population composition at the foundation of Hungary (895) depends on the size of the arriving Hungarian population and the size of the Slavic (and remains of Avar Slavic) population at the time.

By the time this ethnic cleansing was over, Pakistan s population was 95 Muslim.

Finland by this time was depopulated, with a population in 1749 of 427,000.

This was equivalent to two percent of the UK population at the time.

Though privatization plans lagged, the Greeks won high marks for doubling down on fiscal austerity.

Her delegation welcomed the doubling of OHCHR regular budget resources over the next five years.

This summer we agreed to go further, nearly doubling overseas aid between 2004 and 2010.

In 2005, over 2,000 women were title holders, a doubling in the past three years.

Today, the earth s human population totals slightly more than seven billion, but the livestock population at any given time numbers more than 150 billion.

Since that time, the population and health situation in the world has changed dramatically.

One percent real growth means doubling the size of your economy every 30 or 35 years.

At this time, the population of Mayotte voted against independence from France in two referenda.

At the time of the 1931 census, Abu Kishk had a population of 1007 Muslims.

The ASEAN 3 is now strengthening the CMIM by doubling the total fund size to 240 billion.

Blue lasers can also be fabricated directly with InGaN semiconductors, which produce blue light without frequency doubling.

The British Foreign Office claimed at the time that the Chagos Islands had no settled population.

This was only the third time in 600 years that the population of China had decreased.

Growth in the prison population is currently higher than at any time in the country's history.

One possibility is that Putin is not sincere about his aim of doubling Russia s GDP in a decade.

This time, however, the international community was better prepared to get food to the affected areas in time to prevent starvation and massive population movements.

To get the cost projections down to 68 billion from a 100 billion estimate, some existing low speed rail will be used, likely doubling the time it takes to travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco to 5 6 hours.

Development is sustainable so long as an economy s wealth relative to its population is maintained over time.

LONDON The financial crisis that started in 2007 shrunk the world economy by 6 in two years, doubling unemployment.

President Barack Obama has encapsulated this challenge by setting the goal of doubling US exports over the next decade.

Devour not usury , doubling and quadrupling ( the sum lent ) . Observe your duty to Allah , that ye may be successful .

Devour not usury , doubling and quadrupling ( the sum lent ) . Observe your duty to Allah , that ye may be successful .

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.

Point prevalence is the proportion of a population that has the condition at a specific point in time.

By this time the latter had a modest population of around 1,200 people, a castle and rudimentary fortifications.

As compared to urban population, women and in particular men living in rural areas have a longer working week, both among full time and part time workers.

Shanghai s overall economy is currently growing at around 13 per year, thus doubling in size every five or six years.

But the iron ore companies have gotten a windfall gain as iron ore prices have soared (nearly doubling since 2007).