Sentence examples for rising as a proportion of from inspiring English sources

Trade within the euro area is rising as a proportion of those countries' GDP.

As he admitted, government borrowing is now forecast to keep rising as a proportion of GDP all the way till 2016.

British economists debate when the chancellor will manage to move from a position where public debt is always rising as a proportion of our national output to one where at last it starts to fall.

The chancellor can no longer promise a turnaround before the next election: public sector debt is now forecast to keep rising as a proportion of GDP all the way till 2016.

Russia feels it has every reason to fear political Islam, with a population of indigenous Muslims from the Caucasus, which is rising as a proportion of the Russian Federation's total population, and expected to hit 19m or 14% of the population by 2020.

A large chunk of the latter are personnel costs, and Ken Okamura of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson notes that they have been rising as a proportion of total costs in recent years.In this section Currency dilemmas Can debt relief make a difference?

Internet sales rose as a proportion of the nation's retail sales in the second quarter compared with the period last year, government figures show.

The rising cost of weapon technology does not mean that defense costs (d) necessarily rise as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP; the sum of all expenditures made in one year).

Although we do not know the exact amounts, the best estimate is that cash and vouchers together have risen as a proportion of total humanitarian spending today from less than 1% in 2004 to about 6% today.

In other words, profits are expected to rise as a proportion of GDP.But how likely is that, when corporate profits are already nearer their peak proportion of GDP in the last 50 years?

As long as the debt doesn't rise as a proportion of national product (and by that measure it's been falling now for several years), the important issue isn't how large it is in absolute dollars but what the borrowed money is used for.