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POPULATION GROWTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territory or state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("population growth" is a kind of...):
growth; increase; increment (a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "population growth"):
irruption (a sudden sharp increase in the relative numbers of a population)
Context examples:
In 2008-2009 the PGR slid in Germany, France and in the Czech Republic but population growth continued in the Netherlands and Switzerland.
(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)
In the UK, Austria, Greece, Malta, Slovenia and Liechtenstein population growth rates declined in 2007 but have made a comeback in 2008.
(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)
The last few years were good in terms of population growth in Italy, with PGR surging to 0.99% in both 2003 and 2004, falling back to 0.49% in 2005 and rising again in 2006-2007, but the turning point was 2002-2003, when official figures increased nine times, surging from 0.06% at 01.01.2002 to 0.57% at 01.01.2003.
(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)
In 2007-2008, the population growth rate (PGR) of the Czech Republic almost tripled, that of the Netherlands doubled, while the Swiss and the French rates showed solid increases, from 0.67% to 1.13% and from 0.62% to 0.93%, respectively.
(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)
