Sentences with phrase «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.

Now suppose the population of said economy is growing: The only way for people to become better off is to find a way to increase production by a rate greater than population growth.

Is 2.1 % higher than the population growth rate?

Moreover, food production has been increasing more than population growth.

It may therefore appear that consumption per person was a more important component than population growth.

The law schools have been for years graduating law students at a rate that is five times greater than population growth.

They fail to realize that the number of self - represented litigants exploded during the same period when the number of lawyers exploded by 40 % (far more than population growth).

The number of minority business enterprises increased 39 percent between 2007 and 2012 (from 5.8 million to 8.0 million), or more than three times faster than population growth among minorities, according to the Census Bureau's 2012 Survey of Business Owners.

«The assumption from past research has been that cities of all sizes will eventually decline in density, with greater amounts of urban expansion than population growth.

In fact the historic increase in CO2 emissions has been much slower than the increase in GDP (and slower than the population growth rate, as well, as pointed out above).

Economists have again and again been justified by history, against Malthus, in their expectation that food production will increase faster than population growth.

Although at a regional scale some areas of the country will be more affected by climate change (i.e. urban areas) than population growth, and vice versa, the bottom line is that some increase in total exposure to extreme heat is expected in every region of the continental United States.

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.

I read somewhere that law students are being graduated at a rate five times greater than population growth.

In fact, the AMA shows that physician numbers have been increasing across the board for many years, and are increasing faster than population growth.

American's increasing reliance on their cars was reflected in the number of miles driven, which increased at a much greater rate than population growth.