Most single mothers operate under extreme social and economic impediments -- triple the poverty rate of the rest of the population, the highest rate of low-wage employment, the worst wage gap, the lowest net worth, the highest risk of bankruptcy -- that add up to a massive inequality in American society.
While in developed countries the aging population and an increasing rate of chronic diseases among the older population will continue to drive demand for nutrition products, the rise of the middle class is likely to boost sales in emerging markets.
Turkey, in comparison to its European neighbors, does not face population decline, with a projected population growth rate of 1.14% compared with Europe's 0.11%, according to the United Nations.
This trend supports a projected rise in values-based investing, and since the Muslim population is expected to grow at twice the rate of the non-Muslim population over the next two decades, we can assume that growth of Islamic finance will continue.
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Karachi's population, for instance, is clearly growing faster than the assumed national rate of population growth of 3% a year, but no one knows by how much.
Compared to the analagous January-July period of 2011, the birth rate increased by 6.7%, the death rate decreased by 2.9%, and the rate of natural population loss plummeted by 60% (from 138, 000 in 2011 to just 57, 000 in 2012).
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In Michigan the rate of population loss declined between 2008 and 2009, even as the unemployment rate soared above 15%.
That was just ahead of the rate of population growth (0.7%), but well behind the rate of economic growth (2.2%).
The population of two of those groups, Asian Pacific Islanders and Hispanics, are growing at approximately 8 times the rate of the white population.
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It's estimated that fully one-third of Detroiters live at or below the poverty line, the highest rate of any city with a population of at least 250, 000.
It logged the f ifth-highest rate of population growth last year, according to the Census Bureau.
Because so many people emigrated the rate of population growth has been the lowest for three years.
Demand for seafood continues to grow at double the rate of population growth.
The rate of population growth was greatest in Dungannon local government district (21%).
This signals not only the immense rate of population growth in non-European countries, something Drucker recognized, but also their increasing clout.
Spending rising at the rate of population growth and inflation means the same amount of spending can be maintained per person in real terms over time.
The data, based off of births, deaths, administrative records and survey data, reflects the rate of population growth over the 12 months ending July 1, 2012.
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So the suicide rate seems to be lower than that of the male population (although higher than that expected from the rate for the general population, which would be 276).
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Its projected population growth rate of 2.7% for 2013 is the fourth highest of any city on our list.
This is the rate of natural population loss (as distinct from the overall total presented above), and as you can see there has been dramatic improvement.
The main conclusion from this demographic work is that, barring a new increase in female labor force participation or a significant increase in the growth rate of the population, these demographic factors point towards a further decline in trend growth of employment and hours in the coming decades.
With about 6.5m diabetics out of a population of 100m, Mexico now has a higher rate than any other large country in the world.
From 2004 through 2008, the states jacked up spending by nearly 35 percent, or about double the rate of inflation plus population growth.
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Colorado voters adopted a TABOR in 1992, which limits growth in state taxes and spending to the rate of growth of population plus inflation.
For example, nothing would add more to solving the housing situation then adding educated immigrants to the slowing growth rate of our native population.
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The black line is the employment rate of the overall population.
Much of the analysis of movements in house prices concentrates only on demand factors, such as interest rates and the rate of growth in population and incomes.
Chief among them is the economy, which has helped drive the jobless rate amongst those veterans to more than 12 percent in 2011-- well above the rate of the general population.
Last year, some 3, 000 Afghan civilians died in the Afghan War out of a population of 30 million, which makes the civilian death rate from the Afghan war 1 in 10, 000.
For instance, GDP growth is a result of (in addition to population growth) the income reinvestment rate in the economy multiplied by the rate of return on that reinvestment (or the aggregate ROIC in the economy).
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