Sentences with phrase «urban growth rate»

Urban growth rate in Africa Africa's urban centres are currently growing at an annual rate that is the fastest compared to other regions.

Not exact matches

... China has targets of GDP growth around 7.5 percent and a consumer price index (CPI) increase of about 3.5 percent in 2014, with 10 million more urban jobs to keep the urban unemployment rate at a maximum of 4.6 percent.

This strong growth - driven by both occupancy and rate improvement and which was even stronger at upper upscale, urban, and luxury properties - comes at a time when economic data points have called into question the near - term sustainability of the U.S. economic recovery and would appear to demonstrate that as yet no reigns have been placed on corporate travel.

The National Population Commission (NPC) has put Nigeria's current population at 198 million people with urban population growing at an average annual growth rate...

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

Her tenure was marked by consecutive years of enrollment growth, an increase in graduation rates, improvements in student satisfaction and teacher retention, increases in AP participation and pass rates, and the greatest growth of any urban district on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) over multiple years.

Over the past seven years, the district has posted record enrollment increases (with a higher rate of enrollment growth than any other major urban school district in the country) and increased its four - year graduation rate by over 25 percentage points.

With a population of 1.3 billion of which tens of millions stream each year from the countryside into the cities; a hypercaffeinated growth rate of 10 percent which is necessary to create jobs for all those urban arrivals; and greenhouse gas emissions now surpassing those of the United States would it be unfair to say that as goes China, so goes the world?

With an annual population growth rate of 6.5 % and one of the highest urban densities in the world, the 1.5 million people living in the Kathmandu Valley were clearly facing a serious and growing earthquake risk.

So they say CO2 will rise at a certain rate, albedo changes from deliberate land - use changes including urban growth may or may not be specified, but given their assumptions, that is the projected change.

Most countries in South, South East and East Asia are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise due to rapid economic growth and coastward migration of people into urban coastal areas together with high rates of anthropogenic subsidence (for example due to water extraction) in deltas where many of the densely populated areas are located.

Our coastal correction factors (a, b) were applied additionally to the derived rates to account for the assumptions that coastal population growth is higher than national population growth in general and that there is urban expansion from 2000 to 2060 into what has been categorised as non-urban areas in the year 2000.

It must be noted that the underlying UN data, from which we derived the basic national urban and rural growth rates, already consider differences in urban and non-urban (i.e. rural) growth trends and reflect national trends of urbanisation.

CPI - U Automatic Annual Increases Long - Term Care Insurance policies with the CPI - U Automatic Annual Increase option provide a variable rate of annual benefit growth, on the policy anniversary date, based on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Measures.

That means two things where home insurance is concerned: 1) there are a lot of new arrivals in Arizona looking for homeowners insurance, and 2) with that level of population growth, the wildland - urban interface is expanding at an alarming rate.

«There's clearly been a very explosive rate of growth in the interest in green buildings,» says Gary Pivo, professor of urban planning and natural resources at the University of Arizona and author of the study.

Doug McCarron: Primarily the core urban markets, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., Seattle, West Los Angeles, continue to perform exceptionally well with consistent occupancy and rental rate growth.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that a measure of inflation, its Consumer Price Index — Urban Consumer (CPI), rose by 2.1 percent over the past 12 months, similar to the 12 - month rate of growth recorded in December.

They discuss tax rate changes and tax reform, 2017 office sector recap, vacancy rates, economic growth, inflationary pressures, opportunities, urban vs. suburban tr......