The global demand for meat is growing, with China more than doubling its consumption per person since 1985.
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Electricity consumption per person per year in the United States is approximately 12 MWh.
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If its energy consumption per person also rose to current South Korean levels, its energy demand would quadruple.
According to the World Heath Organization report, the country topping the tables of annual alcohol consumption per person is Moldova.
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, energy consumption per person in the U.S. has crept ahead at 3% per year.
Beijing's average domestic water-consumption per person has barely changed in the past decade even though prices more than doubled between 2001 and 2004.
One of them, published in May, tracked how content a segment of mainly urban people said they were between 1990 and 2010, a period during which output and consumption per person increased at least fourfold.
For the record, here in bike-riding, Prius-loving, 47-square-mile San Francisco, per person gasoline consumption is 57 gallons a year.
Per-person consumption of beer in Latin America last year was 40 litres (70 pints), half that in North America, according to Euromonitor.
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But when the environmental groups used the 2010 data from the federal government to calculate per person gasoline consumption, a different picture emerges.
Official figures show that global consumption of fish and seafood per person is rising steeply - but research also reveals that much of what gets sold turns out to be not as described on the packet.
As a thought-experiment, let's imagine that technology switches and lifestyle changes manage to halve American energy consumption to 125 kWh per day per person.
It's that demand for a high return that is keeping the fund from investing in wine retailing and distribution in Asia, despite the fact that wine consumption has risen from 0.1 liter per person annually in 1987 to as much as 3 liters today.
The increase alone would be greater than America's total consumption today, yet China's energy use per person would still be only half that in America.
But the bigger problem lies in framing soda taxes in terms of average consumption, such as 45 gallons of sugared drinks per person per year or the NHANES average of 203 kilocalories per person per day.
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For 50 years--1920 to 1970--annual garlic consumption in the U.S. languished at a measly half a pound per person.
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