What really matters is total world consumption, the sum of all local consumptions, which is the product of local population times the local per capita consumption rate.
Globally with a booming population, food product must increase roughly 70% to feed 9 billion people in 2050.
Murray also suggests adjusting for gross domestic product, a measure of both population and resources.
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Say tacocopters triple what you can buy with a dollar, but cut the marginal product of a large portion of the population in half.
Today, the nine states that do not tax personal income have shown undeniable gains in population growth, gross state product expansion, and non-farm payroll employment performance.
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The NIC suggests that by 2030, Asia will have more "overall power" than the US and Europe combined - taking into account population size, gross domestic product (GDP), military spending and investment in technology.
America's potential growth rate is higher than that of the euro zone and Japan, thanks largely to faster population growth and more flexible labour and product markets.
It is nice to see that RIM continues to do so well with an old product line outside of the US. The largest population of the planet lives in the countries that RIM is most dominant.
The aging population initially posed a problem for hair-product makers.
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Most economists would agree that the ability for subscribers to avoid directed advertising increases the cost to all subscribers because the value of that subscription list has been reduced because it now consists of a smaller population of persons who may be interested in a product based on their interest in the contents of a subscription.
Thus began a process of constant iteration, where each version of the product saw the product getting simpler and more applicable to a broader section of the population.
And with a big presence now in Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, and India, Bubble Motion is benefiting from star power there. 1, 000 Asian celebrities use the product and they have a powerful influence on the rest of the population.
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If the magnitude of a domestic market of a country is measured by the size of her population, China is a large resource (labor) and product (consumer) market.
It has been one of the fastest-growing cities in America in terms of gross domestic product (67% increase from 2001 to 2006) and foreign-born population (65% increase from 2001 to 2007).
There may be the very rare patient on an aliskerin-based product for hypertension that are not on an ACEI or ARB, but that population is going to be very, very small.
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