Sentences with phrase «use per capita»

However, estimating a long - run relationship for motor fuel use per capita was difficult because of the efficacy of the CAFE standards to influence fleet fuel economy.

The only place in the U.S. that's done better than us, in terms of energy use per capita, is Hawaii, where it never gets that cold or that warm.

Since the 1970's, energy use per capita around the country has gone up, up, up, like a very well - performing stock.

Specifically, key parameters of the Human System, such as fertility, health, migration, economic inequality, unemployment, GDP per capita, resource use per capita, and emissions per capita, must depend on the dynamic variables of the Human — Earth coupled system.26 Not including these feedbacks would be like trying to make El Niño predictions using dynamic atmospheric models but with sea surface temperatures as an external input based on future projections independently produced (e.g., by the UN) without feedbacks.

Urban stations are gradually contaminated over the decades as roads are paved, parking lots build, as energy use per capita rises, as populations increase in urban centers.

(South African coal plants are on the coast, so damages are lower although coal use per capita is higher than in the United States.)

It is ludicrous to not use per capita emmissions figures as a measure of contribution.

The discovery that the world is awash in hundreds of years of recoverable fuels is a game - changer, given the strong correlation between energy use per capita and life expectancy.

As a general rule, in the SRES scenarios an increasing affluence causes energy use per capita to rise and leads to the substitution of solid fuels, such as coal and fuelwood, with energy forms of higher quality.

Could somebody educate me, what kind of life style we should adopt to keep our energy use per capita under 2000W (which is the global average today).

Among libraries in our population category (500,000 to 999,999), Multnomah County Library has the highest in - library materials use per capita — the number of books, journals, newspapers and other materials that patrons use in the library but do not check out.

To put it another way, energy use per capita is now about twice what it was in 1950.

Utah has the highest antidepressant use per capita in the country.

Using the nationwide average fuel economy, we calculated the average gallons of gas used per capita in each city and multiplied that by the fuel tax.

FWIW the UN uses per capita gdp to normalize prices between countries for their publications so you could try that.

For fast - rising nations, if the entire world is brought to the point of using at least what China uses per capita — not a terribly high goal — what we do in the developed world will hardly matter.

Well, population is a lot bigger and a lot more energy is used per capita, nowadays, thanks to modern technology.

China understands coal can not be the base load generating fuel for the long term, but it also needs to invest in coal in the short term to meet demand that is still less than 1 / 10th the level used per capita in the United States.

Not exact matches

Any resolution endorsed by member states is unlikely to include targets limiting the use of antibiotics on a per capita basis, the kind of recommendation experts have urged be taken.

It's important to note that the smartphone measure counts the number of total cellphone users who are using advanced devices, and is not a per capita measure.

To illustrate this trend over the last 10 years, we took 2001 and 2011 education expenses for Nova Scotia, Ontario and B.C.. Each province's population of persons aged five to 24 in 2001 and 2011 was used to arrive at a per capita number.

Source: CIA World Factbook, U.S. Census Bureau, GDP and GDP per capita using purchasing power parity

The study ranked urban centers — excluding the larger metro areas — using three factors: local business environment (length of the average workweek, revenue growth, industry variety), access to resources (financing and the amount of venture capital investment made per capita), and costs (office space affordability, labor costs, corporate taxes, and cost of living).

We used the number of households, median home value and average property tax rate to calculate a per capita property tax collected for each county.

[4] We used Peterson - Kaiser Health System Tracker's average out - of - pocket spending per capita as of 2015 and the estimated average credit card APR of 14.87 % from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

To get an idea of the role each component of income per capita plays in the Canada — U.S. income gap, we used the equation shown above, substituting U.S. data for one component at a time, and keeping the country data for the other four components.

Income per capita is the most frequently used statistic for comparing economic well - being across countries.

If we use the Canadian data for four of the components, but use the U.S. productivity level (which is US$ 52.40 per hour worked) instead of the Canadian productivity level (which is US$ 41.50 per hour), the income per capita in 2011 is $ 44,638.

Figure 3 also plots these federal cash transfers in real per capita terms using a GDP deflator based on work by Mac Urquhart for the period 1870 to 1980 and then Statistics Canada (v62788999) for the period since.

Statistics Canada has raised questions about the reliability of the measures commonly used to compare Canadian and U.S. income per capita.2 Shortcomings have been noted in the data on coverage, concept, and accuracy of hours of work.

Although, it's worth mentioning that per capita taxes are used, albeit in much smaller sums, and that's one reason why lower income earners can end up paying a larger percentage of their income toward taxes.

With high per - capita incomes and strong mobile use, the GCC is poised for a surge in online shopping.

You did per capita wrong even with using the wrong data is is the abortion number / population number not the other way around, then multiplied by 100k to get rid of the number.

Per capita, we use quite a bit more than they do.

They usually, however, regard it as a sufficiently accurate indicator of economic well being, that they use the GNP or GDP per capita as if its increase were self evidently desirable, as, indeed, the most important goal of public policy.

It proposes no point at which per capita resource use would cease to grow anywhere, since its whole theory is about how to increase production and consumption.

Even our present rate of energy consumption is not sustainable in the long term, so it is a matter of decreasing per - capita energy use as soon as possible.

First, the planet simply can not support its present population, much less the much larger one anticipated in the future, using resources at the per capita rate now typical in the First World.

Judged by the standard GNP statistics, the US per capita income had increased in real value by 25 per cent since 1976; but, using the ISEW, they found that over the same period the economic wellbeing of Americans had actually declined by 10 per cent.

Results: With the use of the FAOSTAT food balance sheets for Australia, the per capita availability of added or refined sugars and sweeteners was shown to have fallen 16 % from 152 g / d in 1980 to 127 g / d in 2011 (P - trend = 0.001).

In 2007, 59 mg per capita per day, or nearly five times as much, was certified for use...

The categorisation of a country as developing or developed is subject to objective criteria, such as infant mortality rate, adult literacy rate, Gross National Income per capita, percentage of infants with low birth weight, percentage of population using improved water sources and percentage of population urbanised.

However, two economic measures - percentage of and per capita gross domestic product spent on defense - are among those most commonly used.

Governor Cuomo also called on Congress to stop the so - called Graham - Cassidy bill, Congress's latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act.The bill uses block grants and per capita spending caps to dramatically cut Medicaid funding for New York.

The researchers worked with cutting - edge models linking the storm's wind speed, the exposed population, and per capita GDP to reported losses, using a newly designed data set for socio - economic and hazard - related predictors.

The city of Phoenix today uses about the same amount of water as a decade ago because of per capita reductions.

Between 2002 and 2008 per capita urban water use — already low compared with the western U.S. — declined by 37 percent.

Per capita commercial energy use has been growing so rapidly in both countries (or at least it was through 2007 on the eve of the economic meltdown) that if the trends continue unabated the typical Chinese will outconsume the typical American before 2040, with Indians surpassing Americans by 2080.

This map shows spatio - temporal patterns of water - use efficiency (per - capita consumption) across the continental United States.

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