Definition: The average annual percent change in the population, resulting from a surplus (or deficit) of births over deaths and the balance of migrants entering and leaving a country. The rate may be positive or negative. The growth rate is a factor in determining how great a burden would be imposed on a country by the changing needs of its people for infrastructure (e.g., schools, hospitals, housing, roads), resources (e.g., food, water, electricity), and jobs. Rapid population growth can be seen as threatening by neighboring countries.
Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2012
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World Bank Group : Developing World’s Share of Global Investment to Triple by 2030, Says New World Bank Report
4-traders - 5/17/2013 5:04:24 AM
and improved education and health are helping speed growth and create massive investment opportunities, which, in turn, are spurring a shift in global economic weight to developing countries. A further boost is being provided by the youth bulge.
Immigrants To Be Largest Driver Of U.S. Population Growth
American Public Media - 5/15/2013 7:11:27 PM
"This is something that's common throughout the developed world," Massey says. "Other countries have already reached this state, where immigration is the prime source of population growth." A relatively high fertility rate, he adds, has made the U.S ...
Developing countries to dominate global saving and investment, but the poor will not necessarily share the benefits, says report
The World Bank Group - 5/15/2013 11:57:47 PM
By 2030, half the global stock of capital, totaling $158 trillion (in 2010 dollars), will reside in the developing world, compared to less than one-third today, with countries ... of total investment. Sub-Saharan Africa’s investment rate ...
Immigration will be major driver of U.S. population growth
VOXXI - 5/17/2013 9:32:15 PM
For the first time in nearly 200 years, immigration is projected to be the primary driver of population growth in the United States by the middle of this century, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates in a new report. The U.S. population growth resulting from ...
Developing countries’ share in global investment is projected to triple by 2030
balkans.com - 5/17/2013 4:14:18 AM
With developing countries on course to add more than 1.4 billion people to their combined population between now and ... the developing world’s growth will average an annual rate of 4.8 percent in the gradual convergence scenario and 5.5 percent in ...
Developing World’s Share of Global Investment to Triple by 2030, Says New World Bank Report
The World Bank Group - 5/16/2013 10:30:42 PM
and improved education and health are helping speed growth and create massive investment opportunities, which, in turn, are spurring a shift in global economic weight to developing countries. A further boost is being provided by the youth bulge.
60 percent population living below poverty line: World Bank report
Business Recorder - 5/19/2013 12:22:52 AM
Sixty percent of Pakistan's population is living below poverty line, a World Bank report entitled World Development ... A comparison of regional countries showed that the poverty rate in Sri Lanka and Nepal was significantly less than Pakistan ...
Int'l migration to lead U.S. population growth in decades: census
Xinhua News Agency - 5/15/2013 9:20:18 PM
population growth by the middle of this century ... when the census began collecting information about residents' country of birth. "Our nation has had higher immigration rates in the past, particularly during the great waves of the late ...
International migration to lead US population growth
New York Daily News - 5/16/2013 10:27:43 AM
Washington, May 16 — International migration is projected to surpass natural increase as the principal driver of US population growth by the ... about residents' country of birth. "Our nation has had higher immigration rates in the past, particularly ...
The 5 Richest Countries in the World
The Motley Fool - 5/19/2013 5:26:30 PM
While challenges remain for the U.S., the country's GDP continues on an upward track despite the ... The wealthiest nation in the world's top 50 economies has been one of the hottest growth stories in recent years. Singapore's emergence as ...
All my children: How soap operas helped end high fertility rates
Houston Chronicle - 5/15/2013 3:29:33 PM
About 50 years ago India had a fertility rate of nearly six — the number of births per woman. Today that rate is 2.5, which is barely above the estimated U.S. rate of 2.1 in 2011, and essentially the level needed to keep a constant population of about 1 ...
Nigeria’s Poverty Should Be Lower Given Growth, IMF Says
Bloomberg - 5/20/2013 1:50:34 PM
Nigeria’s poverty rate should be falling faster given its economic growth this decade, an official of the International Monetary Fund said. The share of citizens in Africa’s most populous country of more than 160 million who are considered ...
Colton: Immigration bill will send U.S. population soaring
Coloradoan - 5/19/2013 12:47:19 PM
It should. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the nation has added 34.5 million people since 2000. Most of the country’s population growth since 1970 has been due to immigration. The U.S., with 315 million people, is the third most-populous ...
HSBC Global Asset Management's Quarterly Outlook: Has The Developed World Gone Ex-Growth?
PR Newswire - 5/16/2013 6:10:01 AM
... is likely to remain subdued for the next few years as there will be a structural overhang on growth from developed world leverage and population ageing. Compounding the problem, monetary policy has lost much of its power to stimulate in this balance ...
As Japan Courts Growth, Europe Keeps Up Its Love Affair With Austerity
New York Times - 5/16/2013 11:56:36 PM
This week, their paths diverged. Even as Europe fell deeper into what just became its longest recession since World War II, Japan posted an unexpectedly robust growth rate of 3.5 percent under the bold new stimulus measures championed by Prime ...
