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Maintain A Growth Rate: Perhaps more significant than the actual size of the population is the rate of growth and the ratio of people to arable land. The rate of growth is estimated at about 2.2% per annum. Although this rate is not among the world's lighest, if such a relatively moderate rate is ipplied to the large base population, the annual jrowth exceeds 15 million people. Also, when Jie total land area of China is considered, the lumber of people per square mile is about 160 (414 per sq km), a rather low density.
By the end of 1967 about 105 million telephones, almost half the world total, were in service in the U.S. About 130 billion calls were made in the U.S. during the year. Long-distance calling increased by more than 8%, while overseas calls continued to maintain a growth rate of about 20% per year.
The growth of the British economy—measured conventionally as the compound annual rate of growth of the gross national product per head-has averaged since 1950 about 2.5%, or about one half the rates of other industrialized economies. Productivity in manufacturing has grown at a slightly higher rate than in the service sector, and in some sectors of manufacturing (chemicals and motors, for example) much faster than in others (textile and food industries).
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