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compound growth rate
noun[ C ]
ukus(alsocompounded growth rate); (abbreviationCGR); (alsocompound annual growth rate); (abbreviationCAGR)
ECONOMICS, FINANCE
the rate at which an economy, investment, company, etc. grows over a period of years, based on growth over the previous year:
In the 21 years that he has managed Yale's endowment, it has earned a 16.3% compound growth rate.
Examples of compound growth rate
compound growth rate
The population of the province was about 0.5 million in 1994, with an estimated annual compoundgrowthrate of 1.68%.
That does not sound much, but it means that the population doubles in 20 to 25 years—using the figure as a compoundgrowthrate.
From the
Hansard archive
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Of course, the complexity of economic growth cannot be reduced to a simple arithmetic of compound growth rates, for there is nothing automatic about growth.
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