growth rates
How fast things increase
Growth rates measure how quickly something increases over time, typically expressed as a percentage.
Economic growth rates track GDP expansion; population growth rates measure demographic change.
In finance, compound annual growth rate (CAGR) smooths volatile year-to-year changes into a single figure.
The company's growth rate has slowed to 3% annually.
- GDPNational output abbreviation
- year over yearComparing identical periods consecutively
- population boomRapid increase in people
- inflationSustained price level increase
- cell divisionParent splitting into offspring
employment · boom and bust · reproduction · metabolism · photosynthesis · migration · doubling time · urbanization · growing pains · logarithmic scale · carrying capacity · life expectancy · investment · age distribution · fiscal policy · compound interest · decline · exponential
- finance termsnet profit, gross profit, budget, credit, debt
- Economic Forecastsinflation trends
- fisheries sciencefish stocks, biomass, abundance, fishing quotas, quota
- snail farmingescargot, breeding stock, hatchery, harvesting, land snail
- vegetation monitoringground cover, phenology, seasonal changes
- demographicspopulation density, age distribution, population, gender ratio, ethnic groups
growth ratesstagnation
Absence of flow or progress
stasis · equilibrium · stability · steady state · zero growth