The broadest and most accurate measure of living standards is real per capita consumption.
From 1973 to 2004, about 30 years, such real per capita consumption in America nearly doubled.
Aging population of U.S., is expected to increase the per capita consumption of drugs.
China's per capita consumption (2, 456 units) is more than three times that of India.
By the early 1980s, per capita consumption of soft drinks eclipsed that of milk.
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This also makes per capita consumption hard to measure, with official figures sometimes well below actual consumption rates.
Head towards emerging markets where per capita consumption is still very low but increasing at a fairly steady pace.
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The estimated one billion people who live in developed countries have a relative per capita consumption rate of 32.
The per capita consumption of tissue varies from over 23 kilos in the US to as low as 0.48 kilos in Vietnam.
The low per capita consumption is despite the fact that the power sector has been growing at more than 7% every year.
Per capita consumption is at its lowest since 1987, the report said.
Over 75 years, 1929 to 2004, real per capita consumption by American workers increased by 5 times, and even faster since 1961 than before.
Per capita consumption of soda in the US, for example, has declined from around 54 gallons per year in 1998 to 44 gallons today.
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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.
Wealth and Footprint size: The higher the income of a country, the greater was its demand for ecological resources and services (and the higher its per capita consumption).
Gillis more rightly could have blamed any loss in per capita consumption on the stupid (I choose my words carefully) global warming policy that greens once touted: ethanol production from corn.
For more than two decades, soda was the No. 1 drink in the U.S. with per capita consumption peaking in 1998 at 54 gallons a year, according industry tracker Beverage Digest.
Though Croatia came in only at No. 5 in terms of per capita consumption, the risky drinking pattern of its population, as well as high death rates from cirrhosis, put it at the top of our list.
Consumption of chicken meat in Malaysia is high by global standards, with per-capita consumption around 77 pounds, reflecting in part subsidies and price controls.
Per-capita consumption is expected to grow by 10% annually over the next five years.
Kerala tops the list in terms of per capita liquor consumption in the country.
The country's per capita beer consumption is the highest in Latin America, about 20 gallons a year.
Americans consume about fifty gallons of soda a year, more than four times the average per-capita consumption sixty years ago.
Per-capita consumption is not especially gross: volumes are only the eighth highest in Europe, according to the World Health Organisation.
C. industry group, has ranked the Bayou State as high as No. 5 among all states in per capita beer consumption.
As per capita fish consumption in China quintupled between 1983 and 2003, the fortunes of emerging Asia's fish industry--Pacific Andes foremost--have risen apace.
The Dallas and Houston metropolitan areas are among the most oil-addicted with annual per capita oil consumption of 368 gallons and 323 gallons, respectively.
California has previously led the way nationally in curbing per capita electricity consumption, improvement in air quality and other measures of energy and environmental stewardship.
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The long-term growth fundamentals for the global energy sector are strong as per capita energy consumption levels in developing and under-developed economies are significantly lower than those in developed economies.
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Per Capita cigarette consumption peaked in 1975 at about 145 packages (20 per pack) and by 2011 had plummeted to 48.5 packs or two thirds the per person peak level.
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