demographic growth

collocation in English

meaningsofdemographicandgrowth

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demographic
adjective
uk
/ˌdem.əˈɡræf.ɪk/us
/ˌdem.əˈɡræf.ɪk/
relating to demography (= the study of populations and the different groups that make ...
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growth
noun
uk
/ɡrəʊθ/us
/ɡroʊθ/
The growth of a person, animal, or plant is its process of increasing ...
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(Definition ofdemographicandgrowthfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In addition, account must be taken of thedemographicgrowthfactors in education.
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The demands on the health service from thisdemographicgrowthmust therefore increase, in particular during the next 10 years.
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They referred in detail to the certaindemographicgrowthin the number of claimants.
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We have made reductions in staff, but these have been counterbalanced by increases required mainly to meetdemographicgrowth, more widespread social benefit payments and higher requirements for prison personnel.
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Will he consider arranging a further debate on a specific subject—population experts' rather debatable assumptions aboutdemographicgrowthand new housing need in the south and south-west?
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He notes thedemographicgrowthand economic dislocation in eastern rural regions that sent tens of thousands of families to seek new land.
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Demographicgrowthand industrialization went hand in hand, and made for a generalized enrichment of society.
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It focuses on the role of lesser towns as nodes of urban life wheredemographicgrowthand ethnonational assertion feed on each other.
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Quite frequently, economic or industrial expansion in such cities proves difficult to sustain, and rarely approaches their rate ofdemographicgrowth.
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All the essays depict lineages as actors which competed with each other and whose main aim isdemographicgrowth.
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As has long been recognised, this was a period of rapiddemographicgrowth, population turnover, and economic structural change.
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Furthermore,demographicgrowthwas primarily achieved by integrating captives.
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Regulatory institutions in most developing countries have simply not adapted fast enough to match the decline in environmental quality that has accompanied economic anddemographicgrowth.
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Thedemographicgrowthof the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was fuelled to a large extent by rapid in-migration of men and their families to work at the pits.
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On the other hand, there is a need for family policies that favourdemographicgrowth.
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There are the questions of pension age, of the balance between the working population and the retired population and ofdemographicgrowth.
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They experience massivedemographicgrowthand social change, and contain archaic institutions that impede economic growth.
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Ifdemographicgrowthcontinues at that rate, by 2050 there will be 10 000 million people in the world.
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Under the double pressure ofdemographicgrowthand climate change, the water crisis has been made worse by the inadequacy of the political reaction.
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The population has low life expectancy, low levels of education and literacy and highdemographicgrowth.
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