Sentences with phrase «cent over the current year»

This includes growth of 8.2 per cent over the current year.

Not exact matches

If you look back over the past 20 years, you will see that the Australian current account deficit has fluctuated between about 3 1/2 per cent and 6 1/2 per cent of GDP.

With 70 per cent of people over the age of 40 years, and 90 per cent of people over the age of 70 years, requiring corrective eyewear, the current market of over 4 billion people is growing daily.

The economy is now at an advanced stage of its current expansion and has continued to show greater strength than had been generally expected, with real GDP growing at an average annual rate of more than 4 1/2 per cent, and domestic final demand at over 5 per cent, for the past three years.

Correspondingly, the current account deficit has also widened over the past couple of years, although the deficit for the September quarter, at around 6 per cent of GDP (assuming that the net income deficit remains constant as a share of GDP), is likely to have been smaller than in the previous quarter.

The Bank's current assessment is that inflation could fall a little further than earlier expected over the next year, but pick up a little more after that, so that it will be about 2 1/2 per cent by the second half of 2005.

With imports increasing by 40 per cent over the past year, and exports expanding only slightly less rapidly, the current pace of growth in China is providing impetus to activity in the region.

Current EU cashew consumption is now over 2m tonnes per year, according to FAOSTAT figures, an increase of almost 30 per cent from a decade ago.

The Irish firm could not escape the current climate of squeezed margins, higher raw material prices and «currency turbulence» with operating profit for the year falling by over 8 per cent on 2003 to $ 238.546.

Congress has failed to pass Child Nutrition Reauthorization that is now over a year past due and even if it had passed, would only have allocated 4 1/2 to 6 cents additional funds per student, so even for the mere pennies per lunch that we could have added to the current $ 2.72 that we spend on school meals, our elected officials couldn't come together for the health of our children.

But in Edinburgh where chronic HCV prevalence is lower and current treatment rates already at three per cent of PWID with chronic HCV, then once the new DAA become available HCV prevalence is projected to reduce by 25 per cent over the next 15 years.

Over half (52 per cent) of secondary school leaders told us they received more applications than they could accommodate for last year's admissions round, and the rate of growth is set to increase at secondary level as the current primary school population moves through the system.

Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said for the first time this early in the year, the data showed international student numbers had grown 12 per cent to 509,610 in the year to February 2018, on top of a 54 per cent increase over the past five years since the current Federal Government came to power in 2013.

The roughly 1.7 per cent current yield on a 10 - year Government of Canada bond is still well below its historical average over the past 30 years, according to Bloomberg data.

David Rosenberg, chief economist and strategist at Gluskin Sheff + Associates, says the current environment for crude is a lot like the S&P 500 when it bottomed in March 2009, as the index had fallen 40 per cent over a two - year period.

Anyway, today we try to explain the exact opposite: how northern hemisphere ice ages can quite suddenly weaken — at least in case of the last one, which had its cold peak around 18,000 years ago, after which atmospheric CO2 levels «suddenly» (over a millennium or so) rose by 30 per cent, and temperatures started to climb closer * to our current Holocene values.

On September 24, Bill Ritter, the current director of the Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University and former Governor of Colorado, wrote in the Wall Street Journal that «Long - term contracts for wind energy are being signed by utilities in several states in the range of 3 cents per kWh over 20 years» (1).

The Life Insurance Corporation of India has reported a 62.84 per cent rise in its first premium income (FPI) to Rs 6,051.18 crore by selling over a crore of new policies in the current financial year

Over the last three years, it has seen employee engagement increase by five per cent per annum, with a current level of 85 per cent.

The current divorce rate in Canada is approximately 44 per cent — a rate that has gone up over 1,200 per cent in the past 50 years.