Peaking on 9 December with a low peak rate, the shower lasts from 8 December to 14 January, with the highest rates visible from 8 to 14 December.
In 1966, Leonids flashed across the sky at a peak rate of 40 a second.
But now India's GDP growth rate has fallen to half of its peak rate.
Some argued that the world had reached "peak oil"—its peak rate of oil production.
The world's population is growing at 1.1 percent per year, half the peak rate in the 1960s.
But in Nevada, Davy found, the peak rate of delinquent mortgages hit 9.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009.
The peak rate of increase was reached in the early 1960s, when each year the world population grew by about 2 percent, or about 68,000,000 people.
It reduces the peak rate of import duty for non-agricultural products from 12.5% to 10%, a move that will help to limit import-led inflation.
In 1999, the Leonids peaked at more than 60 a minute, and during the Leonid meteor "storm" of 1966, the peak rate was estimated at several thousand a minute.
In 2012, the incarceration rate in the United States (707 per 100,000) was about one and a half times that of Russia (472) and over triple the peak rate of the old East Germany (about 200).
But despite that optimistic name, oil is coursing down the Trans-Alaska Pipeline at half the peak rate in the late 1980's of two million barrels a day, says the State Division of Oil and Gas.
