The other method of calculating GDP involves measuring total consumption of products by a country's population.

另一种计算gdp的方法衡量的是该国总人口的生产品消耗总量。

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Despite China's huge population, its net grain import currently accounts for only about two percent of its total consumption.

尽管中国有庞大的人口，但是目前粮食进口值占了总消费的2%。

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And with growth of the total population and the urbanization, beef consumption still has a large space of growth in China.

且随着人口总量的增长及城市化水平的提高，中国牛肉消费必然还存在较大的增长空间。

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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.

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