The estimated one billion people who live in developed countries have a relative per capita consumption rate of 32.
There are some signs that this is happening in China, where the household consumption rate continued to fall in 2012.
What really matters is total world consumption, the sum of all local consumptions, which is the product of local population times the local per capita consumption rate.
Turkmenistan also has a population of only about 5 million, and little real domestic industrial activity, which means that the domestic demand for this energy is quite low, at a consumption rate of 21 bcm in 2009.
Finalize proposals for tax and social security system reform before the end of FY 2011, including raising the consumption tax rate to 17 percent and basic pension benefits of 70, 000 yen per month for all persons 65 years and older.
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Czechs have the highest rate of alcohol consumption among children aged 13 to 15 in Europe, a rate that is also higher than that in the U.S. and Canada, according to the World Health Organization.
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If you slow down the rate of consumption you will take in fewer calories.
The low power-consumption and high transmission rate can better suit the users' goals for upgrade of system performance.
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It all puts our present rate of consumption into frightening perspective.
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It is no coincidence that the Philippines has the highest rate of consumption (about 80% of GDP) in emerging Asia but one of the lowest growth rates.
Legislation to increase the country's rate of consumption tax, enacted last August, states that the government must try to achieve nominal economic growth of about 3 per cent and real growth of about 2 per cent -- implying inflation of about 1 per cent -- before going ahead with the tax hikes.
That year a new manager took over and instituted a tiered system of payment: If your household consumption was not more than 7.5 cubic meters per month (this would take care of water required for drinking, cooking and some hygienic needs of an average family of eight), you paid a subsidized rate, but if your monthly consumption was more, you paid a market rate.
In the final three months of 2004, household consumption grew at a quarterly rate of only 0.2%.
Even more encouraging than the opportunity to reduce this usage gap is the double-digit rate at which consumption is increasing in Asia.
Then, to show the potential long-term physical toll of drinking, the app shows them a photo of how they might look in 10 years at their current rate of alcohol consumption.
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Even in the face of a Great Depression, a World War, a Cold War, recessions, oil shocks, inflation and unemployment, Congress never sought to require the purchase of wheat or war bonds, force a higher savings rate or greater consumption of American goods, or require every American to purchase a more fuel efficient vehicle.
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Meantime, the latest U.S. personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation rate was 0.9 per cent, annualized.
If the rate were based on consumption, poverty would be halved.
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Since the old, who have shorter time horizons, have larger propensities to consume than do the young, this transfer has fueled a huge increase in personal consumption, reducing our national saving rate (saving as a share of national income) from 10 to 15% in the 1950s and 60s to a negative 1.5% last year.
Its exports have grown more slowly than Germany's, but private consumption has advanced at almost triple the rate.
His crucial revenue-raising decision was to increase the main rate of VAT, a consumption tax, from 17.5% to 20% in January 2011.
Over the ensuing decades, consumption of fat by Americans duly decreased, sugar and sweetener consumption went up, and the obesity rate has more than doubled.
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Intel claims that the PC consumption in Q3 grew at half the season rate and it expects a similar situation next quarter as well.
Over the last decade, it says in its most recent annual filing, consumption here has grown at a compound annual growth rate of 7%.
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More broadly, the current tax code gives people powerful incentives to consume rather than save or invest since consumption is taxed only by states at a low rate while saving and investment is taxed by states and the feds multiple times.
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Unless we scrap guzzlers at a faster rate, we will never reduce our oil consumption.
In Finland, SMS consumption of iPhone owners declined at a -20% rate over the same time period.
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