Economists suggest the economy would have to grow at an annual rate of about 2% for unemployment to fall.
He forecasts that demand will grow at an annual rate of 5% to 6% for the rest of this decade.
We currently estimate that the number of franchise stores will grow at an annual rate of around 6%, reaching 12, 000 by 2017.
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Citigroup estimates that private banking in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan, will grow at an annual rate of 20-30% in the next five years.
Employment there is projected to grow at an annual rate of 2.9% during the next four years, and GMP is expected to grow at 4.3% annually by 2014.
On average for the last four years, they have seen sales grow at an annual rate of 26% and such strong growth is always looked upon favorably in our analysis.
According to Cisco, the global cloud traffic will grow at an annual rate of 45% and reach 4.3 zetabytes by 2016, while global data center traffic will grow to 6.6 zetabytes.
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If people spend roughly the same share of their rebate as they did in 2001, Morgan Stanley reckons output could grow at an annual rate of more than 4% in the third quarter of 2008.
The experts predicted real GDP to grow at an annual rate of 1.6 percent this quarter, down from the previous estimate of 2.5 percent, and, over the next three quarters, they expect GDP growth to average 2.1 percent.
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We are just starting to see products emerge that support DisplayPort, and we believe that DisplayPort-enabled devices will grow at an annual rate of 243 percent from 2008 to 2012, representing tremendous opportunities for product and accessories manufacturers that can quickly develop DisplayPort products to capitalize on this growth.
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The Boston Consulting Group projects that wealth controlled by women will grow at an average annual rate of 8% through 2014.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency overseeing the programs, has warned that between 2015 and 2021, health spending is set to grow at an average annual rate of 6.2% as a result of the aging of the population, expansion of access to care under the federal health-care law, and an improvement in economic conditions.
This program would induce the Greek economy to grow at an average annual real rate of 5% over the next 10 years, hold government spending to 0% real growth, and permit us to become current on all of our existing debts, while paying 4% interest.
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Labour productivity continues to grow, with non-farm output per hour increasing by 1.1% at an annual rate in the second quarter.
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