Sentences with phrase «around its decade average»

Total profitability of the corporate sector, as measured by gross operating surplus, has been gradually declining as a share of GDP since the peak reached in 1996, and is now, at 15 per cent, around its decade average.

Not exact matches

The CBO, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and World Bank all forecast an average reading of around 2 % over the next decade.

Case in point: China's gross savings rate has been high for decades, averaging around 45 percent of GDP for the last 20 years, per the World Bank.

Although the household debt to net worth ratio has declined considerably from its peak, it is still around 26 percent, well above the already elevated average of the past decade (Chart 19).

The average absolute value of current account balances as a share of GDP is higher today than it was three decades ago, with much of the run - up occurring in the past decade, and there is less dispersion around the average.

A common criticism leveled at your analyses has been that you predicted, if the PRC maintained its current fiscal practices, growth would average around 3 % per year over this decade.

This setting of monetary policy is supporting employment growth and a return of inflation to around its average rate of the past couple of decades.

In the September quarter, this deficit stood at around 3 per cent of GDP, somewhat smaller than in the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decade.

The spread between 10 - year bond yields and the cash rate is currently around 45 basis points, compared with more than 100 basis points on average over the past decade (see the chapter on «Assessment of Financial Conditions»).

Overall, Australia's trading partners are expected to grow by 4.1 per cent in 2004, around 1/2 a percentage point faster than the average of the past decade (Graph 1).

While the measured participation rate has been quite volatile over the past year, in recent months it has stabilised at around 63 3/4 per cent, a little above the average of the past decade.

Looking back through history, whenever value stocks have gotten this cheap, subsequent long - term returns have generally been strong.3 From current depressed valuation levels, value stocks have in the past, on average, doubled over the next five years.4 Not that we necessarily expect returns of this magnitude this time around, but based on the data and our six decades of experience investing through various market cycles, we believe the current risk / reward proposition is heavily skewed in favor of long - term value investors.

That's the 500 largest companies in America, a benchmark for the market that has traded for an average of around 16 - times over the past five decades.

While African governments now invest around US$ 2000 of public funding per student (more than the average for developing countries), this follows decades of underinvestment in which drives for education focused on primary and secondary learning.

Prices have increased by around 171 per cent in the previous decade, from an average of # 70,696 to # 191,556.

On the other hand there has been no really notably dry, hot, sunny summer in the UK since 2006; summers overall have either been around average or exceptionally wet, and this appears to be linked with strong warming and more frequent high pressure over Greenland in the last decade.»

By the late 1980s, the average ice velocity at the front of the shelf was around 20 percent faster than in the preceding decades, the researchers report in a paper to be published in Geophysical Research Letters.

A group of international security experts polled by Senator Richard Lugar puts the average probability of a nuclear attack on U.S. soil within a decade at around 29 percent, still plenty terrifying.

In 2001, the average salt level in packaged bread was 1.23 g per 100 g. By 2006 this had fallen to 1.05 g, and by 2011 this had fallen further still to 0.98 g / 100 g, equivalent to a reduction in salt levels of around 20 % over the decade.

What does it say about education reformers that it's taken us a decade to wrap our heads around the concept of an average?

The average age of a charter leader is around 55, meaning many are set to retire in the next decade.

By moving in and out of the market, Joe Stockpicker managed an average return of little more than two per cent a year over those two decades, compared to an average annual return of around nine per cent for the S&P 500 index (even after the market crashes of 2000 and 2008).

Average life expectancy is around 78, so this person still has a decade or so to live with no money in the bank.

While shares of stocks have offered an average return around 9 % over the last couple of decades, the volatility around that average has been 20 % over the last ten years.

As seen below, the company's payout ratios have been somewhat volatile over the last decade but have averaged around 50 - 60 %, providing reasonable cushion and opportunity for dividend growth.

-- Over the last decade, total federal, state and local spending has averaged around 37 % of GDP.

Over the past few decades, payout ratios have averaged to around 40 - 50 %.

In fact, statistics show that the average degree holder takes around two decades to pay off their student loan.

A beautiful buzz word that has been floating around arts and crafts communities for decades, it refers to environmentally - conscious artwork created using material that, to the average observer, may just look like junk.

The world warmed around 5 °C in 10,000 years since the last glacial maximum — that's 0.005 °C per decade on average.

0.5 million km2 per decade in the last decades, the yearly average temperature trend was flat 1880 - 1920, +3.5 Â °C 1920 - 1930, variable (around a flat trend) 1930 - 1948, -3 Â °C 1949 - 1994, +3 Â °C 1995 - 2004 Even more interesting: the summer (June, July, August) temperatures dropped from average +7 Â °C in 1900 - 1980 to +3.1 Â °C in 1983, and slowly went up again to +6 Â °C in 2003 - 2004.

Of these, two models showed insignificant trends in the region in which Pam developed, and the rest showed positive trends averaging around 0.5 m / s per decade, considerably less than the observed trend over the last 30 years.

This decade - long satellite altimetry data set shows that since 1993, sea level has been rising at a rate of around 3 mm yr — 1, significantly higher than the average during the previous half century.

Early 20th century warming was around.4 oC in three decades The global average temperature experienced an increase of +0.57 C between 1910 and 1944: http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcrut3/diagnostics/global/nh+sh/annual Early 20th century was also about half anthropogenic I'm very curious about where you get this estimate from.

It is currently on average around 0.2 C / decade [Note the IPCC claimed 0.34 C], actually smaller than the annual noise from natural annual variation of the temperature due to ocean currents and volcanoes and in the range of solar activity fluctuations.»

the pack ice around Antarctica has, on average, been a larger extent decade on decade, indicating the Southern Ocean is cooling, not warming.

The recent decadal average is up around 1 C on this scale, and well above the 2004 value indicated in the graph, and hence above the mean across all decades.

Researchers found that around the 15,000 - foot - high Tibetan Plateau, average temperatures have soared by 0.4 degrees Celsius -LRB-.72 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade (twice the average of the warming globe), while precipitation has risen by 12 percent since 1960.

For more than a decade international climate - policy discussions have revolved around a seemingly simple goal: Limit the rise in average global surface temperature to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

Tropical cyclones are relatively rare, averaging around 90 a year, and that number fluctuates annually and from decade to decade − largely because of natural causes.

«When meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe, they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades.

From 1978 to 1996, the average ice cover around Antarctica showed almost no trend (a slight increase 1.3 % per decade), however ice decreased by 2.9 % per decade on average over the arctic seas (1).

However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades.

Dr Pfister reported to Hubert Lamb that for several decades prior to 1564 the Swiss climate was on average 0.4 c warmer than today (1990's) In Switzerland, the first particularly cold winters appear to have begun in the 1560s, with cold springs beginning around 1568, and with 1573 the first unusually cold summer (Pfister, 1995).

Climate models estimate that around the world, average VPD in warm seasons could rise as much as 3.6 percent each decade, according to the study.

None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2, Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed, The modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing models to simulate past climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments, Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (about 6 inches per century) worldwide, Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.

A doubling of the pre-industrial levels of atmospheric CO2 of roughly 280 parts per million, which could occur within decades unless people curb greenhouse - gas emissions, could eventually boost global average temperatures by around 9 degrees C.»

For the last 50 years, global temperature rose at an average rate of about 0.13 °C (around one - quarter degree Fahrenheit) per decade - almost twice as fast as the 0.07 °C per decade increase observed over the previous half - century.

In the decade before the accident, construction started on an average of 24 new reactors each year around the world.

I think that, given how steadily it has been warming since 1980 (about 0.3 C per decade for the average land area, see below), a forward projection would be a good central estimate around which to add the uncertainty that partly includes what emissions will do in that timeframe.