Sentences with phrase «urbanization rates»

While the continent has traditionally lagged in urbanization rates (40 percent, as of 2014, compared to 54 percent worldwide), this figure will increase to 47 percent by 2030 and 56 percent by 2050.

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Demographic pressures, the rate of economic development, urbanization and pollution are all putting unprecedented pressure on the worlds water resource.

Clifford Nass and I have demonstrated a significant negative relation between government expenditures and rates of Protestant church membership in 1950 and 1980, taking states as the unit of analysis.12 This effect appears to hold when other factors influencing church membership, such as religious composition, urbanization, region, and migration, are held constant.

AXA and Jumia view Africa as a fast - developing market for financial services and insurance products, benefitting from strong fundamentals such as low penetration rates, rise in middle class, urbanization, as well as the youth of its population.

Other factors include declining mortality rates and increasing urbanization.

And they examined data from sources like the U.S. Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to look at various socio - ecological factors that have been posited as contributors to individualism, including prevalence of infectious disease and disasters, rates of urbanization, changes in secularism, and trends in occupational status.

These data may explain why NCD rates are on the rise in a nation in which vegetarianism remains common despite urbanization.»

As urbanization continues to increase and fertility rates remain low, online matchmaking platforms will continue to grow.

Q. Do wealth and urbanization always lead to reduced population rates?

Looking at electrical rates in the 48 contiguous states, one might expect to see prices vary according to the amount of inexpensive hydropower or more expensive renewable power or other factors such as the temperature or level of urbanization.

China is clearly past the peak of the domestic coal - burning binge of the early 2000s that fueled its dizzying recent rate of urbanization and industrialization.

The rate of urbanization in the adjacent suburbs can be greater than at the airport at all times without the suburbs ever catching up to airport microclimate urbanization.

This yielded apparent confirmation in expected directions: a distinct effect for urbanization class in the expected direction; of ratings in the expected direction; and of max - min in the expected direction.

It seemed to me that random effects methodology could be applied to see the impact on trends of the various complicating factors — ratings category, urbanization class, equipment class.

We assume that Chylek (2008) is right to find transient and equilibrium climate sensitivity near - identical; that allof the warming from 1980 - 2005 was anthropogenic; that the IPCC's values for forcings and feedbacks are correct; and, in line 2, that McKitrick is right that the insufficiently - corrected heat - island effect of rapid urbanization since 1980 has artificially doubled the true rate of temperature increase in the major global datasets.

Mostly, it is being lost to urbanization, at a rate of about 100,000 ha per annum (Ministry of Environment and Forest, 21).