Sentences with phrase «years of population growth»

If it happened again — after 150 years of population growth — it could be a trillion dollar disaster, and millions would have to abandon their homes.

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Without a sustained level of immigration, Canada's population growth could be close to zero within 20 years.

Western Australia has maintained the country's fastest annual population growth rate of 2.9 per cent, however the rate of growth has slowed compared with last year's figures.

«The relationship of Italians with the EU, over the last year since we've seen some economic growth, it's not been sufficient and satisfactory enough to create confidence among the majority of the population.

That's a percentage point drop from the previous year and a steeper drop since 2011 when 26.7 % of U.S. population growth was focused in urban areas.

With 66 % of its population under the age of 35, India is set to reap an unprecedented 40 - year demographic dividend similar to those enjoyed by industrializing Europe and the Far Eastern «tiger» states at the peak of their growth.

Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, believes China's population is much smaller than official statistics, owing to years of slower population growth under the one - child policy.

People wanting something better, something that's just out of reach, are second only to population growth among reasons anyone has a right to forecast business will be better next year than last.

Our museum has worked hard over the last several years to improve our reach into the African - American and Hispanic communities, since the region has a large population of the former and is experiencing rapid growth among the latter group.

Denver — like Nashville, a midsize city that has seen brisk population growth in recent years — could see its already rapid rate of rent increases hit nearly 6 percent per year, triple the overall rate of inflation.

Meanwhile, in the last year, YouTube videos of alleged police brutality have gone viral, helping to inspire the growth of the #blacklivesmatter movement, and America's swelling prison population has even become a subject in presidential debates.

We also see it as an opportunity for energy companies in particular that the median age of Iran's educated population is 28 years — this is a market with promising growth potential.

It can hardly come as a great surprise that when economic growth falls short year after year and when its beneficiaries are a small subset of the population, electorates turn surly.

Most economists expect potential economic growth to decline from about 3 per cent annually to about 2 per cent over the next ten years, as a result of continued poor productivity growth and a slowing labour force growth as the population ages.

Greater Brisbane this year faces an oversupply of 8000 new dwellings this year as scheduled completions outstrip population - driven growth in demand, research group SQM said earlier this month.

This will not only alleviate the significant traffic congestion we face today, but will prepare us for the population growth we know is coming over the next 15 to 20 years, particularly south of the Fraser.

The Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Pennsylvania's Rep. Galusha Grow, managed the Act through Congress and echoed a point made years earlier by former President James Madison that population growth would eventually make obsolete a broad - based property ownership policy limited only to the ownership of land.

If we factor in population growth, the 12 - month MA of the civilian population - adjusted data (age 16 - and - over) is down 0.06 % month - over-month and unchanged year - over-year.

Ontario government spending has been increasing faster (by about 3 % per year) than the combined rate of population growth and inflation.

That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years, combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»

The PCs» Speech from the Throne clearly says that the government will not invest in services at the rate of inflation and population growth, meaning that again this year Albertans will see more and more services that don't keep pace with the province's growth.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the National Association of Home Builders estimates that U.S. builders will start fewer than 900,000 homes this year, well below the 1.3 million needed to keep up with population growth.

Stockland chief executive Mark Steinert this week said the national population growth rate of 1.6 per cent would keep driving demand for new facilities, even though traditional retailers were planning fewer new stores than they were five or six years ago.

The plan designated it as a significant growth area, but the municipality is at least six years behind with construction of a new sewage plant needed for the town's population to grow from 30,000 to 86,000 by 2031.

«We lost some momentum toward the end of 2013 from disappointing job growth and limited inventory, but we ended with a year that was close to normal given the size of our population,» said Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist.

In the coming years, an adequate public transit system that is well prepared for population growth will be critical in ensuring a high quality of life and business competitiveness within Greater Vancouver.

(1) employment growth, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Summaries in August 2016, with the percentage representing the employment change from June 2015 to June 2016 in each city; (2) population growth, based on and sourced from the 2014 and 2015 Census, with the percentage representing the change in population from 2014 to 2015; (3) increase in home values, based on Zillow Home Value, with the percentage representing the change in median home values for single - family homes from June 2015 to June 2016, sourced August 2016; (4) years to pay off property, which was based using the median home value for July 2016 and the median rent for a single - family residence for July 2016, both sourced from Zillow; median rent was multiplied by 12 to obtain yearly rent and then home value was divided by yearly rent to determine how many years it would take for the home to be paid off from rental income using current home values and rent prices for each city.

Similarly, the urban population is projected to grow about 1.6 % per year over this period, and this can be used as a proxy for growth of the middle class to a lower bound of 3 billion.

[24] To go from a population of eight to a population of 27 million in 350 years would require a population growth rate of 136.07 %.

When America reached a state of zero population growth a few years ago, the cheers were heard from all sides.

Yet in view of its amazing growth in its first 150 years, it is not without interest to note that an LDS mathematician recently made a half - joking but statistically correct projection that «if Mormonism continues to grow in the United States at its present rate, and if the U.S. population continues to grow at its present rate, then in another 150 years when Mormonism celebrates its tricentennial, all the nation's citizens will be Mormons.»

That a lot of secular progressives are fierce supporters of the abortion license because they're eugenicists at heart shouldn't come as a surprise; one current member of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had a Gruberian moment some years ago when she admitted in an interview that legal activists promoting the abortion license prior to 1973 did so in part because they thought it would cut down the «growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.»

Revolutionary change, compression, and concentration which prepared the way for even greater change, industrialization, urbanization, ascension in world power, tremendous growth in population — these were the predominant characteristics of those forty years.

If by some way humanity were able to reduce the environmental impact of all its technologies by 10 per cent and there were no increase in per - person affluence, world population growth would return the collective impact of humans to the previous level in about five years.

And some Asian countries have managed to reduce their rate of population growth in recent years.

The MIT projection is that if we continue on our way as at present, shortages of resources for industry will slow population growth within twenty years and stop it, early in the twenty - first century, at approximately six billion.

The present rate of growth of the population in Australia of 1.6 per cent a year is the highest in the industrial world.

Opening a two - day High - Level Expert Forum on How to Feed the World in 2050 Diouf told the 300 delegates that over the next 40 years: «The combined effect of population growth, strong income growth and urbanization... is expected to result in almost the doubling of demand for food, feed and fibre.»

The report shows organic farming is forecast to record outstanding growth of 50 % over the next five years and anticipates Australian farmers will export more food as Asia's population continues to grow.

Richard Ballard and Steven Dring hatched the idea two years ago after lengthy debates about how to achieve a carbon - free economy and how to deal with the pressures of urban population growth.

There's probably no subset of the population for whom calcium consumption is more important, given that women's long - term bone strength is dependent, in part, upon calcium consumption during these exact years of critical growth.

However, the two sides can not agree on elimination of a second seat, as required by New York's slow population growth over the past 10 years relative to the other states.

Funke Fayehun a demographer in the University of Ibadan said that the theme for this year's world population day event is the best way to handle Nigeria's rapid population growth as it seeks to encourage family planning.

Note that means that the policy of adding lanes was able to negate the effects of traffic growth by both induced traffic and population growth over this period of 10 years.

On the one hand, the ANC have presided over 14 years of consecutive economic growth and totally defied those who predicted collapse; electricity now reaches 80 % of the population; 65 % of five year olds are enrolled at school, and social welfare assistance has increased four-fold.

With a total population of 1.3 billion people and a GDP growth rate last year of 7.8 per cent, albeit down from 9.3 per cent in 2011, it is set to become the largest economy in the world within a generation.

Over the past 15 years, Utica finally turned around its population decline, stabilizing and even squeaking out a little bit of population growth, according to Census Bureau estimates.

The Government has talked of a consensus that the UK needs from 225,000 to 275,000 homes per year to keep up with population growth and to tackle years of under - supply.

The state has seen slow population growth in recent years, while New York actually lost a small amount of population last year.

Overall, immigration has seen the UK's population grow by 1.7 million in the last ten years - almost 70 per cent of the total growth in the UK's population.