Sentences with phrase «faster than population growth»

In fact, for the first time in over a century, population growth in urban areas is actually happening faster than population growth in the suburbs, as of 2011.

The superpower nuclear standoff gave us fifty years of relative peace, we had cheap energy from inherent over-supply of oil, grain supply increased faster than population growth and the climate warmed due to the highest solar activity for 8,000 years.

Among the positive trends: the primary energy intensity of the global economy improved at a faster 2.8 % pace in 2015; for the first time in all regions of the world, electricity access grew faster than population growth; in Bangladesh and Mongolia, energy access gains were nearly 10 percent.

Not exact matches

Similarly, the growth in the Aboriginal population is much faster than the growth in the general population and prices experienced on reserves are significantly higher than in urban centers.

Ontario government spending has been increasing faster (by about 3 % per year) than the combined rate of population growth and inflation.

Just as Thomas Malthus had shown how population had the capacity to increase faster than the food supply, so this computer - based report concluded that world order would collapse if population growth, industrial expansion, increased pollution and the depletion of natural resources were to continue at current rates.

Atheism is currently the fastest growing demographic, having more than doubled over the last decade and in the youth population the growth rate seems to be exponential.

Since the middle of the eighteenth century, the West's population has more than quadrupled while real income per head increased at least fivefold — an even faster rate than today's population growth in the Third World.

Fortunately, population growth in the world appears to be slowing faster than anyone forecasted, largely through voluntarily measures (with the exception of a few states like China), while simultaneously improving human welfare around the world.

And nearly all of the projected growth rates in emissions of carbon dioxide (and five other kinds of heat - trapping gases included in the determination) in the next few decades are expected to occur in fast - growing developing countries, led by China and India (which by midcentury is expected to be have more people than China and even today has the population density of Japan).

The overall population in non-OECD countries is projected to grow more than twice as fast as that of OECD member countries, and the demand growth for energy services such as air conditioning, home electronics, and personal vehicles increases with rising incomes.

You imply in this post that the main reason that Canada's GHG emissions have grown faster since 1990 (which I agree is an arbitrary baseline) than those of European countries is our faster population growth and faster economic growth.

Fortunately, population growth in the world appears to be slowing faster than anyone forecasted, largely through voluntarily measures (with the exception of a few states like China), while simultaneously improving human welfare around the world.

The only known solution to our ecological overshoot is to decelerate our population growth faster than it's decelerating now and eventually reverse it — at the same time we slow and eventually reverse consumption levels.

The fact that poor Asian countries with most of the world's population have enjoyed faster economic growth rates than the rich countries over the past 30 years is probably the most important socio - economic fact of our time, but it wasn't foreseen by the modellers and, incredibly, many in the IPCC milieu still deny that it's happened: three IPCC chapters (Chapters 1 and 9 of the WG II report and Chapter 1 of WG III report) go out of their way to assert that global inequality has been increasing in recent decades.

With its fast - expanding economy raising incomes, with population growth slowing, and with the grain harvest climbing, China eradicated most of its hunger in less than a decade — in fact, it eradicated more hunger in a shorter period of time than any country in history.

The growth is being fueled primarily by developing countries, especially China and India, where economies are fast - expanding and population continues to increase at a significantly higher rate than in industrialized nations.

There are a number of trends currently facing the legal profession (increased client sophistication, fee pressures, stagnant growth, the number of lawyers growing at a faster rate than the general population, succession planning needs and an increased emphasis on non-traditional skills — see the CBA Futures Report for a more fulsome list) that make the traditional practice model difficult (impossible?)

Like MAs, this faster - than - average job growth is attributed to an aging population who will inevitably have more healthcare needs as they grow older, the BLS says.

The much - faster - than - average growth is attributed to the aging population and the increase in number of new medical tests performed.

As the population ages and the need for diagnostic imaging increases, the US Department of Labor is predicting faster - than - average job growth for radiography professionals.

Whereas California's population growth had clocked in at 242 percent faster than the national pace from 1940 to 1970, from 1970 to 2016, it was just 68 percent faster than the national pace.

Above - average employment and population growth will help as well: the Las Vegas market will rank No. 6 for job growth, with gains of 3.2 percent, and its population of adults ages 20 to 34 — a prime rental demographic — will grow faster than any other city's, at nearly 3 percent.

Looking strictly at cities with populations exceeding 250,000, Frey found they grew twice as fast from 2010 to 2013 — 1.06 percent, 1.11 percent and 1.01 percent — than they did between 2000 and 2010, when their average annual growth rate for the decade was 0.49 percent.