Sentences with phrase «per capita consumption»

A new study has found that increases in state cigarette prices and restrictions on indoor smoking can lead to decreases in state per capita consumption of beer and spirits, but not wine.

The effort to improve the economic lot of human beings will then ordinarily be seen as improving the health of their communities rather than as increasing per capita consumption.

However, this amount represents an impressive 80 percent increase between 2000 and 2014, and annual per capita consumption has grown to 7.5 pounds.

Really, it is a choice between human numbers and average per capita consumption.

A high proportion of multiple - family housing, which reduces per capita consumption of land, infrastructure and just about everything else.

Specifically, the researchers looked at water - use efficiency, measured as per capita consumption, in 5 - year increments, from 1985 to 2010.

Remember falling population will be happening at a time of increasing robotics in western countries at least, which may tend to keep per capita consumption high for some specific goods and services.

Obviously, if human numbers and per capita consumption continue to increase then that way lies disaster for humans and the planet.

Historically, population has grown fastest when per capita consumption is modest.

Between 2012 and 2013, per capita consumption jumped by 3.3 %.

They lead to increased productivity and thereby, assuming full employment, to increased per capita consumption.

With respect to saving the planet, over a few short years it is hard for smaller families to beat sharp reductions in per capita consumption.

A new study estimates that, since 2008, access to mobile - money services — which allow users to store and exchange monetary values via mobile phone — increased daily per capita consumption levels of 194,000, or roughly 2 percent, of Kenyan households, lifting them out of extreme poverty (living on less than $ 1.25 per day).

Published in Science, the study estimates that, since 2008, access to mobile - money services increased daily per capita consumption levels of 194,000 — or 2 percent — of Kenyan households, lifting them out of extreme poverty (living on less than $ 1.25 per day).

Despite the fact that Americans drink a staggering amount of bottled water, it's actually Mexico that has the highest per capita consumption rate.

America has the highest per capita consumption of milk and yet has the highest rate of osteoporosis.

Beer companies in Australia are facing the biggest hit from the falling per capita consumption because of the limited capacity for exports, in contrast to the 2000 wine companies in Australia which are tipped to keep benefiting from rising exports to a combined $ 2.5 billion in 2016 - 17.

Other countries in the area, such as the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand all have fairly low per capita consumption of electricity.

The ever - increasing human population, growing per capita consumption and economic inequity have destroyed natural habitats, the researchers said.

What scientific evidence, sound reasoning or common sense explanation can provide a foundation for expanding unbridled economic globalization even one more day, for increasing unrestrained per capita consumption beyond its present conspicuous level for one more week, and for condoning the projected addition of 70 to 80 million members of the human community in this year alone?

Gourmands and health - conscious consumers alike have fallen for fish; last year per capita consumption in the United States hit an all - time high.

What developments are shaping the U.S. coffee market and impacting per capita consumption levels?

Value - added convenience products that appeal to consumers who lack either cooking skills or the time for traditional meat preparation fuel overall category growth despite per capita consumption declines.1

Burgeoning consumer tastes in markets such as India and China more than offset more mature European and North American markets, where per capita consumption is on the decline.2

In America per capita consumption of soft drinks has fallen about 25 per cent since peaking at about 200 litres per person in the 1990s.

Mean daily per capita consumption among the sample was $ 2.50.

By World War II, the increased availability of sugar allowed yearly per capita consumption of 24 g / day.

It seems to me that the human community has reached a crossroads in Bali, Indonesia, December 2007: EITHER we will choose to «stay the current course» of endless economic growth, ever increasing conspicuous per capita consumption and skyrocketing human population numbers OR we will find other ways to go forward.

Global warming is real, and population growth is real too — so is per capita consumption, at best per capita greenhouse gas emissions have recently become stable.

Only if we keep our nerve will voluntary population restraint and voluntary per capita consumption rates be achievable without war, poverty and famine extending indefinitely into the future with fatal consequences for humanity, the planet and the entire environment.

The main judgement that has to be made today is whether human society can get to a stable global population level and a sustainable per capita consumption level voluntarily over time or whether it can not.

It can enable reasonable living standards to be obtained with smaller per capita consumption of resources, but more efficient technology can also lead to increasing extraction rates — chainsaw logging of forests and industrial scale deep sea fishing, for example.

Per capita consumption figures are, however, likely to remain well below those in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.

Mongolia's Ministry of Energy reports that per capita consumption nearly doubled from 2000 to 2013, rising to 1,908 kWh, attributed to the burgeoning mining and construction sectors, as well as rising consumerism.

Once population growth ceases it becomes easier to restrain per capita consumption and total consumption.

Two scenarios of energy demand are explored, one holding per capita consumption at current levels, the second raising the global average in the year 2100 to the current U.S. level.

In the U.S. average per capita consumption is a little less than 1 kilogram per year (less than 1/4 tablespoon per day).

In poor countries the birth rate is soaring, while consumption has leveled off (which means per capita consumption is going down); in rich countries the birth rate has leveled off, while consumption is increasing.