(Rank 15)At the time of Australian Federation in 1901, the rate of natural increase was 14.9 persons per 1,000 population.

The result is slower population growth.

In 1971, the rate of natural increase was 12.7 persons per 1,000 population a decade later it had fallen to 8.5.

In 1996 the rate of natural increase fell below seven for the first time, with the downward trend continuing in the late 1990s.

The rate of increase in the world s population rose from 1.8 in 1951 to 2.1 in 1971.

A rate plateau of over 13.0 persons per 1,000 population occurred for every year from 1946 to 1962.

The Arab world also has the highest population growth rate in the world, with almost 40 of its population now below the age of 15.

Fertility reductions in the richer parts of the world have already brought population growth rates close to zero.

I feature organic process.

Nevertheless, our problems are aggravated by rapid growth in the human population, which is projected to reach eight or even nine billion by 2050.

Donors should lend their support by backing long term solutions aimed at increasing food production, slowing population growth, and mitigating long term global climate change.

It was a clever move of natural selection itself.

This appeared to contradict the principles of natural selection.

I like to drink natural mineral water.

Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy addressed the question of artificial selection, yet Nietzsche's principles did not concur with Darwinian theories of natural selection.

Literate, well educated women with many social and economic options in today's rich countries have pulled fertility below the natural replacement rate. The problem is not that such women on average want fewer than two children in fact, on average they wish to have a bit more than two.

Literate, well educated women with many social and economic options in today's rich countries have pulled fertility below the natural replacement rate.

Partly due to such efforts, as well as to a change in family values, the rate of growth of the world s population, began a long decline, to 1.1 in 2005.

With more than 100 million people still below the official poverty line and per capita income currently just over 6,000 in nominal terms, robust economic growth must be maintained. Outgoing President Hu Jintao indicated that China s total GDP and per capita income should double by 2020, which will require 7.5 average annual growth.

Outgoing President Hu Jintao indicated that China s total GDP and per capita income should double by 2020, which will require 7.5 average annual growth.

We measured natural selection operating on women in Framingham, Massachusetts, where a long term medical study on heart disease produced the data that we used.

Without natural selection, the appeal to God made sense.

We've developed this ability because it makes evolutionary sense.

In other words, reliability is impossible unless there is a natural warmth.

The capacity to produce novel utterances is an attribute of every natural language.

The United Nations estimates that the continent will account for more than 40 of global population growth through 2030, with the working age population expected to surpass that of China by 2040.

Risk models do not justify abandoning one s natural sense of incredulity.

China's one child policy must have been an advantage for its per capita GDP growth, allowing more time to be spent on business activities rather than childrearing. But Mexico has recently also shown a sharp decline in population growth rates, as Mexican women opt for more birth control and smaller families.

But Mexico has recently also shown a sharp decline in population growth rates, as Mexican women opt for more birth control and smaller families.

Although I am a physicist, I began to study demography about15 years ago, in the belief that the key global problem was not so much the threat of nuclear annihilation as the dynamics of population growth.

A system is all the possibilities displayed by a given natural language.

Is it a product of natural selection, like our hands?

The inflation of the 1970's was a natural failure of Keynesian political economy.

Ecological selection is natural selection via any other means than sexual selection.

With the property market booming, prospective capital gains promised untold wealth.

The continent s Mediterranean neighbors look to Europe as their natural partner.

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Abolition of taxes on realized capital gains increased the sales of shares enormously.

The combination of the estimated increase in the world s population by two billion people, lower transport costs, better connectivity, and growing transnational social and economic networks could and should lead to increased movement of people.

Slow German growth, he maintains, is a sign of natural convergence.

That means an annual increment to world income of 250 billion from this source alone.

With confidence restored, real GDP growth rebounded strongly, reaching 8.1 in 1997.

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