Then output per worker would have grown 0.2 percentage points a year faster in British businesses and 0.5 points faster in America, Finland and Sweden.
Since 1970, America's Medicare costs per member have risen by three percentage points a year faster than GDP per person.
The records show prices rising 2.5 percentage points a year faster than inflation, which is just about what income has done.
The brokerage analysts predicted that the average growth stock would rise more than 20 percentage points a year faster than would the average value stock.
Eventually the plan is to offer a two-year undergraduate degree, possibly in association with another British university, "with courses compressed so that students can finish a year faster than usual," Ms. Forbes said.
Across the continent, African elephants, the world's largest land mammals and one of its greatest examples of social intelligence, are being poached for their ivory at a rate of close to thirty thousand a year, faster than they can reproduce.
Between 2000 and 2009 output per person in poor countries excluding China grew an average of 3.2 percentage points a year faster than rich ones an unprecedented pace of catch-up.
If the growth in Medicare were to come down to a rate of only 1 percentage point a year faster than the economy's growth, the projected long-term deficit would fall by more than one-third.
One study found that countries that move from the bottom to the top quartile in the World Bank's Doing Business index grow 2.3 percentage points a year faster, for example.
The economy tends to grow at around 4% a year, faster than most rich countries but more slowly than Brazil's emerging-market peers.Weak investment reflects low domestic saving.
Even so, to justify today's valuation premium to the broader market, its earnings would have to grow 34 percentage points a year faster than the average company's during that decade.
