As a result, in US dollar terms, import demand grew by 38.7 , outpacing export growth of 31 .

Between 1938 and 1941, growth averaged more than 10 .

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

According to the World Bank, the average growth rate for the period 1996 2002 in Africa was about 3.6 , compared to the world average of 2.7 .

Growth in real output has averaged around 5 percent in the past seven years, but rapid population growth has offset much of this increase.

And South Africa grew by only 2.5 last year and may not grow faster than 2 this year.

Growth in Africa in 2004 averaged 5.1 , the fastest in eight years.

According to the International Monetary Fund, economic growth averaged over 9 per year from 1966 to 1999.

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

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

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

In 2004, the economy grew by 4.3 per cent, up from 2.8 per cent the previous year.

Average annual growth in the least developed countries, many in Africa, reached almost 7 last year.

By limiting the study population to children in the other two groups, for whom exogenous growth hormone stimulates normal growth, researchers achieved a 100 relative treatment difference.

Third, while US data have been surprisingly encouraging, America s growth momentum appears to be peaking. Fiscal tightening will escalate in 2012 and 2013, contributing to a slowdown, as will the expiration of tax benefits that boosted capital spending in 2011.

In last decades, the Mozambican population has grown to a rhythm sped up by about 3,3 , caused by the formation of a considerable sector of vulnerable population.

In July 2005, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reported that the economy grew at a rate of 7.5 per cent in 2004 05.

Largely as a result of a precipitous fall in exports, China is likely to continue to grow, but at a much slower pace than the 11 12 annual growth of recent years.

But this year s 7 growth rate, which puts Brazil nearly on par with China and India, cannot be sustained, as it exceeds potential growth by a wide margin.

In 2009, Russia recorded annual population growth for the first time in fifteen years, with total growth of 10,500.

Excluding the 1989 1990 slowdown that followed the Tiananmen crisis, average annual growth over this period was 9.45 , with a peak of 14.2 in 1994 and 2007, and a nadir of 7.6 in 1999.

The budget deficit will likely be in the range of 8 10 of GDP, even if growth comes back to some extent.

Russia ended 2006 with its eighth straight year of growth, averaging 6.7 annually since the financial crisis of 1998.

The growth in construction was reflected in dramatic growth in the real estate industry, with the real estate market recording an annual sales volume of 245 million, representing a 68 per cent increase over 2003 sales.28

The amount of Tekes (the National Technology Agency) funding in the Lahti Region grew 40 during 2004 2007 while the average growth in Finland was 60 .

From 2003 when our Government came to power to 2004, our growth rate was 7.8 per cent according to the updated information of the Central Bank of Paraguay.

Between 1933 and 1937, the US economy grew by 8 a year. Between 1938 and 1941, growth averaged more than 10 .

China s annual economic growth has been roughly 8 9 for the last 26 years India has recorded similar rates for the last decade.

The annual growth rate of about 3.6 per cent in 2004 does not seem to have increased the generation and stabilization of formal employment.

Indeed, from 1980 to 2011, growth in services output averaged 8.9 per year, fully 2.7 percentage points less than the combined growth of 11.6 in manufacturing and construction over the same period.

But, with the liberalization of the Indian economy in 1991, the country embarked upon a period of dizzying growth, averaging nearly 8 per year since then.

Even before the financial crisis, it was clear that China could not continue indefinitely on its growth trajectory of 10 or more.

The period of overall real economic growth from the 1960s to the 1980s has been called the Japanese post war economic miracle it averaged 7.5 percent in the 1960s and 1970s, and 3.2 percent in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Japan recorded its highest annual growth rate since 1996, whereas the European Union recovery remained sluggish.

While Ifo s World Economic Climate indicator, generated from quarterly surveys of 1,200 experts in 90 countries, worsened slightly during the first three quarters of 2005, it rose again in the last quarter, indicating a continuation of the boom. In 2005, growth is estimated to have been about 4.3 , and a similar rate can be expected in 2006, marking a period of sustained rapid global growth unseen since the 1970 s.

Over the past three decades, the US has been able to grow at an average annual rate of around 2.5 . Some attribute relatively slow growth to demographic factors, which have reduced the labor force, as well as to weak productivity levels, which have been low.

Indeed, from 1980 to 2011, growth in services output averaged 8.9 per year, fully 2.7 percentage points less than the combined growth of 11.6 in manufacturing and construction over the same period. The recent inversion of this relationship suggests that the structure of Chinese growth is starting to tilt toward services.

Thus, net exports contributed 10.8 to China s overall GDP growth rate, or only about 1.1 percentage point of 9 growth in 2008.

Growth has been virtually flat in developed economies and, at 5.6 in the emerging world, is well below the 7.6 average in the previous five year period.

So his recent exercise in speculative future history, which asks whether economic growth in the United States has come to an end, has attracted much favorable attention.

Average EU growth in 2004, when the world economy recorded the strongest growth in more than a quarter century, was only 2.2 while inflation was 1.9 .

To be sure, Scandinavian growth is mediocre.

Annual GDP growth in the first three quarters of 2010 averaged only about 2.6 and most of that was just inventory building.

Indeed, for China, the current annualized growth rate of 37 in housing investment is very negative. Ideally, it would slow to, say, 27 this year!

As of 2013, the country is developing strongly on key indicators, including health care and education annual growth between 2004 and 2010 averaged per year.