In 2004, the economy experienced 6.4 GDP growth and 7.1 in 2007, its fastest pace of growth in three decades.

The pace of job growth reached 10 year highs in 2007.

Real GDP growth in 2007 was 6.0 per cent.

The economy grew after 1982, achieving an annual average output growth of more than 3 between 1983 1985.

Excluding China, there was a general slowdown in growth of service imports by developing countries, mirroring a lower growth rate in their exports.

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

Forecasts to the year 2020 predict growth in tourism in all regions of the world, with the strongest relative growth occurring in parts of the developing world.

Upon the end of the war in 2003, GDP growth began to accelerate, reaching 9.4 in 2007.

Credit growth in the overall economy declined in 2009 as economic activity stalled.

From a position of 5.1 real GDP growth in 1972, the UK went into recession in 1974, with GDP falling by 1.1 .

Since the second quarter of 2009, US annualized real GDP growth has averaged 2.4 .

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

Annual output will most likely rise by less than 5 this year, down from 6.8 in 2011 and 10.1 in 2010.

The rate of GDP growth more than tripled, averaging more than 9 per year from 2005 to 2007.

In 2012, the growth rate of M2 was about 14 , relatively low by historical standards, but still significantly higher than the nominal GDP growth rate.

The GDP growth rate was only 1.7 in 2011, and it is not significantly higher now.

As a result of the global financial crisis, China s export growth in 2009 dropped by 34 compared to 2008.

Indeed, annual GDP growth has fallen by five percentage points since 2010.

But the human population has almost doubled since 1970, while the global economy has grown even faster.

In 2007 the Ukrainian stock market recorded the second highest growth in the world of 130 percent.

South Korea s GDP growth slowed from 6.3 in 2010 to 3.7 in 2011 and to 2 in 2012 Taiwan s fell from 10.7 to 1.3 over this period and Singapore s plummeted from 14.8 to 1.3 .

TheAfrican Economic Outlook estimates that Africa's GDP growth in 2003 stood at 3.6 , significantly higher than the 2.8 recorded in 2002.

Between 1959 and 2005, about half of the growth of the middle class s income came from increased net government expenditures.

Up to now, the Argentine model has seemed successful, yielding substantial economic growth for the country since 2001.

A total of 283,000 new jobs (1.8 percent growth) were created in 2003.

The incidence of HIV in the adult population reveals a pattern of slow growth and looks set to level out from 2010.

1 In 2004, Guatemala reverted to real per capita GDP growth.

With the exception of Qatar, this led to an increase in the share of oil exports in total 2004 exports.

The pace of real GDP growth fell from 2.4 in 2010 to 2 in the next four quarters, and then to 1.7 in 2012.

From 2003 to 2012, China s annual GDP growth averaged 10.5 , while prices rose by only 3 annually.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the economies of the PRC and India have been growing rapidly, both with an average annual growth rate of more than 8 .

The growth of the world economy had slowed measurably in 2005 it was expected to reach about 3 per cent in 2005 and the same in 2006.

Over the last 30 years, in terms of the GDP growth rates, China has grown at twice the rate of India.

However, the original constituencies drawn in 1871 were never redrawn to reflect the growth of urban areas.

Number of employed persons recorded steady growth between 2000 and 2008 when it peaked, followed by 4 decline in 2009.

The rapid rise in saving has reduced consumer spending, slowing the pace of GDP growth in 2009 and in early 2010.

Indeed, from 2000 to 2004, the increase in net government expenditures accounted for 150 of income growth, as other sources of income shriveled up.

The regime has been in power for the last 20 years, the country's GDP per capita stands where it was 20 years ago.

Moreover, any investment growth is vital for Germany, which, according to the latest OECD statistics, currently suffers from the world s lowest share of net investment in national income. Even if Germany remains the world s laggard, rising investment demand as such will contribute to GDP growth, which Ifo estimates at 1.7 in 2006.

During the two decades leading up to World War I, the financial sector grew almost four times faster than the economy, in the first wave of financial deepening and globalization, but from 1918 until the 1970 s, finance expanded less rapidly than average economic growth.

Austere Growth?

But wages have grown at a far slower pace than GDP.

From the late 1970 s until 2007, the financial sector grew far more rapidly than the real economy.

Of course, every year has its growth challenges, and 2007 will be no exception.

BEIJING Since the eruption of the global financial crisis in 2008, China has used massive economic stimulus to sustain GDP growth.