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
Not exact matches
Outside South and Central America,
where the fruit is native, Australia has the highest
per -
capita consumption in the world, at an annual 3.2 kilograms (kg), or about 15 fruits, according to industry body Avocados Australia.
Rapid growth in coffee production in South America during the second half of the 19th century was matched by growth in
consumption in developed countries, though nowhere has this growth been as pronounced as in the United States,
where high rate of population growth was compounded by doubling of
per capita consumption between 1860 and 1920.
Annual
per capita consumption of both heating and industrial fuels and transportation fuels is shown in GJ (gigajoules,
where 1 GJ is about two - thirds the energy of a typical lightning bolt).
One of the key strategies for Coke in developed markets
where consumption for
capita is stable - to - declining is to increase the sales
per occasion by finding ways to subtly increase the price points of their products.
In a world
where people are consuming increasingly more resources (including carbon)
per capita, it only seems logical that to make significant improvements to the earth's natural environment we must address
consumption AND population.
Establish that there is a boundary value
where per -
capita consumption is much lower than that of developed countries today, as a consequence of lower population.
The same sort phenomenon will play out in the developing world,
where falling population and increasing economic performance (increasing efficiency, productivity) might mean
per capita consumption stays about the same for a period of time, as they play catch up with the west.
In the long run, much of the economic growth of developed economies is likely to involve less energy - intensive sectors because of demand - side factors such as 1) the amount of stuff people can physically manage is limited (even with rented storage space), 2) migration to areas
where the weather is more moderate will continue, 3) increased urbanization and population density reduces energy
consumption per capita, 4) there is a lot of running room to decrease the energy
consumption of our electronic devices (e.g., switching to clockless microprocessors, not that I'm predicting that specific innovation), 5) telecommunication will substitute for transportation on the margin, 6) cheaper and better data acquisition and processing will enable less wasteful routing and warehousing of material goods, and 7) aging populations will eventually reduce the total amount (local plus distant) of travel
per person
per year.