The 80s and 90s was a grim period indeed, when national output didn't even manage to keep up with the growth of the population.
With the continued growth of the U.S. population, this lower supply is definitely having an effect on price.
China will steadily increase the consumption of goods it produces, which is consistent with the growth of the middle class to be 30% of the total population by 2020.
He also raised the issue of the competition over water, which is increasing worldwide and will deepen with population growth, urbanization and the impacts of climate change.
The number of EMS teams and ambulances is not tracking with the growth in population.
For example, in the island nation of Papua New Guinea, an increase in population growth coupled with rising sea levels is decreasing the amount of crop land making farming very difficult for the indigenous people of the region, according to the U.N.
Las Vegas was the No. 3 city with a population of more than 1 million in terms of growth over the last decade, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The UN's reason for naming a symbolic date as seven-billion day is to draw attention to the speed of population growth, with less than 13 years having passed between the six-billion and seven-billion milestones.
It did not have the growth of the Shanghai region with its population of 100 million.
Global finance is struggling to keep up with population growth and the lack of productivity across nations is resulting in slowing economic growth.
Accepting stagnation economic growth that barely keeps up with population growth means that nobody prospers except at the expense of others.
With Hispanics and Asians accounting for much of the population growth, the U.S. became more diverse.
The rural population is growing it has risen by 17% since 1971 compared with population growth of 4% in England as a whole but much of the growth has come from people moving out of cities and from the spread of retirement homes.
All have had to cope with the most wrenching change any part of the world has had to endure in living memory, including the fastest population growth, the most rapid urbanisation and some of the biggest tides of immigration.
This jibes nicely with domestic migration trends and growth in the foreign-born population, both of which have been strongest in many of these same cities.
The once lily-white Midwest and the once black-and-white South are becoming prime places for immigrants (eight of the ten states with the biggest growth in the foreign-born Mexican population are in the South, for instance).
It simply assumes current projections of population growth then sets out policies to cope with the extra numbers.
Annual economic growth, of about 2%, is barely keeping pace with the population.
Now, Kenya is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa with a relatively high population growth rate, and that makes for trouble in Kenya compared to Tanzania.
However, with nominal growth slowing, the global population aging and developed economy governments reluctant to issue large amounts of debt this dynamic will affect larger and more traditionally stable asset markets.
The latest signs of uncertainty in the U.S. hiring outlook came Friday as unemployment was largely unchanged in October and the addition of 80, 000 jobs failed to keep up with adult population growth.
"Certain funeral and cemetery operations were identified as not being well aligned with our long-term growth strategy, primarily because of their lack of geographic proximity to the major population areas of North America, " Service Corp.
This segment of the American electorate is by any measure sprawling, with near-explosive population growth in places like California and Texas and growing numbers in swing states like Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Nevada and New Mexico.
At a global level and with some notable exceptions the world does seem to be converging towards the sort of flatter population growth not seen for a century.
The shortage of places in primary schools reflects a growth in the birth rate - with some areas facing an increase of 25% or above in the primary school population.
In contrast, Europe may be able to maintain a steady level of prosperity--even with lower growth, since its population will be either stagnant or declining--at least until the looming costs of maintaining a welfare state impose onerous economic burdens.
The Kremlin has tried to boost population growth, fearing that fewer births in an aging population will sap the economy, especially with a pension age of 55.
"Many African countries are feeling the effects of population growth, and are finding they'll need to deal with it in order to continue developing as well as to address their environmental issues, " he told BBC News.
BBC: Scientists urge Rio moves on population and consumption
The economist makes the argument that post-crisis GDP growth rates are about 11.9% off of historical standards, which, along with the employment-to-population ratio, suggest the current macroeconomic environment is a lot more challenging than in other recessions and will need the intervention of government to recover.
FORBES: Historically GDP Growth Is Off By 11.9% And Labor Markets Should've Already Bounced
As in much of the developing world, population growth in India has become heavily concentrated in the poorest areas with large populations.
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