Meaning Of Growth Rate In English - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of growth rate in English growth ratenoun [ C ]   ECONOMICS uk us Add to word list Add to word list a measurement of how fast something increases in size during a particular period: Developing countries report a high economic growth rate of 6% this year. The economy's growth rate has slowed from 3% to 2.5%. The agricultural sector has slowed from a growth rate of 7% to 3%.annual/quarterly/year-on-year growth rate The fund has achieved an average annual growth rate of 13.7% over ten years. the GDP/job/earnings growth rate a fast/healthy/high growth rate a low/slow/weak growth rate a sustainable/long-term growth rate

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compound growth rate projected growth rate (Definition of growth rate from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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growth rate Due to a high population growth rate, it increased to 24.3% of the population in 2001. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This represents a population growth rate of 2.6%. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The annual population growth rate in the district was calculated at 2.7%. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 12.5%. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 16.8%. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 25.25%. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 15.21%. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 12.04%. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 19.49%. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This represents a population growth rate of -2.3%. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of growth rate?

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More meanings of growth rate

• compounded growth rate
• compound growth rate
• projected growth rate
• compound annual growth rate
• compounded growth rate, at compound growth rate
• compound annual growth rate, at compound growth rate

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