According to the International Monetary Fund, during the first decade of this century, annual global growth averaged 3.7 , compared to 3.3 in the 1980s and 1990s. In the last four years, growth has averaged 3.4 .

The price of human beings across the last 4,000 years in today's money has averaged about 40,000 dollars.

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Look more closely, however, and you will discover that these countries vaunted growth models cannot possibly be replicated everywhere, because they rely on large external surpluses to stimulate the tradable sector and the rest of the economy. Sweden s current account surplus has averaged above a whopping 7 of GDP over the last decade Germany s has averaged close to 6 during the same period.

Since March 2004, women's salaries have averaged 52,037, compared to men who earned 60,259.

In the first half of the 1990s, annual inflation averaged 40 in Africa, 230 in Latin America, and 360 in the transition economies of Eastern Europe. And, in the early 1980s, advanced economy inflation averaged nearly 10 .

In the last four years, while net Palestinian imports from Israel averaged about 1,450 million annually, net current transfers to the PA, which mainly represent donor support to relieve the humanitarian emergency, averaged 1,300 million per year.

Perhaps the deepest explanation for the Legion of Gloom s strength is where they live. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the OECD economies averaged annual GDP growth of 0.5 from 2008 to 2012, whereas non OECD economies averaged 5.2 growth.

In 1965, India averaged 854 kilograms of grain per hectare in use, while Sub Saharan Africa averaged almost the same, 773 kilograms per hectare. But, by 2000, India was producing 2,293 kilograms per hectare, while Africa was producing only 1,118.

In 2003, MB consumption in the top 10 A5 Parties averaged 21 below baseline (Table 3).

In recent years, GDP growth rates within the region have averaged less than 2 per cent.

Over the last 18 quarters, annualized growth in real consumer demand has averaged a mere 0.7 , compared to a 3.6 growth trend in the decade before the crisis erupted. Never before has the American consumer been this weak for this long.

Out of a possible 500 points, Virgin Islands fourth grade students averaged 179. The national average was 219.

This pattern should be a cause for concern, because annual GDP growth in the eurozone during the past decade has averaged about 1 . Similarly, average annual growth in the United States has slowed from around 4 between 1870 and 1973 to roughly 2 since then.

The number of local government jobs averaged 11,626 in fiscal year 2003, compared to 11,621 jobs in fiscal year 2002.

Growth in real GDP appears to have averaged close to 4 in the second half of 2013, nearly double the 2.2 pace of the preceding four years. The unemployment rate has finally fallen below the 7 threshold.

Forecasts are always hazardous, but some what if scenarios shed considerable light on what all of this means for the world s largest economy. Since the second quarter of 2009, US annualized real GDP growth has averaged 2.4 .

MADRID In recent years, China s current account surpluses which have averaged almost 220 billion annually since 2000 have attracted much criticism from the rest of the world. But Germany s similar size surpluses which have averaged about 170 billion since the euro s introduction in 1999 have, until recently, largely escaped scrutiny.

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The supposed evidence was wrong because 50 is the PMI s dividing line not between growth and recession, but between accelerating and slowing growth. Indeed, for 19 out of the PMI s 36 months of existence, the value has been below 50, while Chinese manufacturing growth has averaged 7.5 .

A5 countries in total achieved a MB reduction of that averaged about 20 between 2000 and 2002 (See Annex 2 for details).

A5 countries in total achieved a MB reduction of that averaged about 20 between 2000 and 2002 (See Annex 2 for details).

Economic reforms had brought about macroeconomic stability, and the rate of GDP growth had averaged 10 per cent over the previous five years.

One of the most glaring features of this pattern is the disparity between China s GDP growth, which has averaged nearly 10 annually over the last few decades, and its employment growth, which has amounted to just 1 2 annually. Clearly, industrialization and export expansion alone cannot absorb China s massive labor force.

Since the fourth quarter of 2008, America s net national saving rate has been negative in sharp contrast to the 6.4 of GDP averaged over the last three decades of the twentieth century. Never before in modern history has the world s leading economic power experienced a saving shortfall of such epic proportions.

Since 2000, global onshore wind power generation has averaged 27 annual growth, while the growth rate for solar photovoltaics has been a staggering 42 . Last year, an additional 45 GW of wind and 32 GW of solar were installed worldwide, compared to a net addition of 1.2 GW of nuclear.

And, notwithstanding all of the fanfare surrounding Abenomics, Japan s economy remains moribund. In the six quarters of Shinzo Abe s latest stint as prime minister, annualized real GDP growth has averaged just 1.4 up only slightly from the anemic post 1992 average of 1 .

But it did little to revive household consumption, which accounts for about 70 of the US economy. In fact, since early 2008, annualized growth in real consumer expenditure has averaged a mere 1.3 the most anemic period of consumption growth on record.

Given this, America s declining productivity growth which has averaged just 0.7 annually since 2010 has led some observers to blame the slowdown on inadequate technological advances. These pessimists, such as the economist Robert Gordon, claim that new innovations are unlikely to improve productivity as fundamentally as electricity, automobiles, and computers did in the last century.

Accounting for 69 of the economy, consumer demand holds the key to America s post crisis malaise. In the 17 quarters since recovery began, annualized growth in real personal consumption expenditures has averaged just 2.2 , compared to a pre crisis trend of 3.6 from 1996 to 2007.

Germany s economy contracted in the second quarter of 2014, and has grown by a mere 3.6 since the 2008 global financial crisis slightly more than France and the United Kingdom, but less than half the rate in Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Since 2000, GDP growth has averaged just 1.1 annually, ranking 13th in the 18 member eurozone.

Yet Botswana averaged 8.7 annual economic growth over the past thirty years, while Sierra Leone plunged into civil strife. The failures in the oil rich Middle East are legion.

Depending on the emission scenarios and climate models used, the globally averaged surface temperature is projected to increase by 1.4 C to 5.8 C above 1990 levels by 2100.

Worse, these numbers are just the latest in what has now been a four and a half year old trend. From the first quarter of 2008 through the second quarter of 2012, annualized growth in real consumption spending has averaged a mere 0.7 all the more extraordinary when compared with the pre crisis trend of 3.6 in the decade ending in 2007.

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Apart from the sources of income mentioned above, these Hollywood blockbusters still had bits of income from aircraft broadcast and music, which averaged at US 2.7 million at most for each film.

Look more closely, however, and you will discover that these countries vaunted growth models cannot possibly be replicated everywhere, because they rely on large external surpluses to stimulate the tradable sector and the rest of the economy. Sweden s current account surplus has averaged above a whopping 7 of GDP over the last decade

In the 1980 s, Japan s annual GDP growth averaged 4.5 since the early 1990 s, the economy has been virtually stagnant, averaging barely 1 annual growth. In the 1990 s, Japan s government, grossly misjudging the sources of the economy s difficulties, vastly increased government expenditures on public works, but ignored supply side adjustments.

Economic growth rates reveal the same gap. From 1978 to 2003, annual real GDP growth in China averaged 8.1 while growth in Mexico the fastest in Latin America, barely reached 1 a year.

Many researchers believe that the threat to life and property from NEOs, when averaged over long periods, is comparable to that from more familiar natural hazards such as earthquakes and extreme weather events.

This is apparent in the fact that, over the last 15 years, the real federal funds rate the Fed s benchmark policy rate, adjusted for inflation has been in negative territory more than 60 of the time, averaging 0.6 since May 2001. From 1990 to 2000, by contrast, the real federal funds rate averaged 2.2 .

NAFTA brought with it a spectacular increase in Mexican exports, as well as a dramatic shift in their composition. But it proved to be a great disappointment in terms of foreign investment inflows and economic growth, which has averaged 2.6 per year over the last two decades slower than Peru, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, and Uruguay.

The argument for legislative action is tantalizingly simple the US merchandise trade deficit has averaged a record 4.4 of GDP since 2005, with China accounting for fully 35 of the shortfall, supposedly owing to its currency manipulation. The Chinese, insists a broad coalition of politicians, business leaders, and academic economists, must revalue or face sanctions.

For the last five years, Pakistan s annual GDP growth has averaged just 3 half the rate needed to absorb two million new labor force entrants every year. If growth does not pick up, the ranks of the unemployed and underemployed will swell, increasing the size of the pool from which extremist groups find fresh recruits.

Minority communities' representation in the civil service (a priority) averaged 9.6 per cent across the central government ministries (against a stipulated minimum of 16.6 per cent) and 6.2 per cent at decision making levels.