Definition: Growth rates

Category: OECD - Data and Metadata Reporting

Growth rates are ratios of total change in a specified time reference period to values at the beginning of the period or at a specified earlier time reference. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/coded_files/OECD_data_metadata_report_handbook_EN.pdf
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Adapted from UNSD, 1958, Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, English Section, Population Studies, No. 29, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York [quoted in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), "Data and Metadata Reporting and Presentation Handbook", OECD, Paris, 2007]
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