Growth in the first half of the year averaged 1.2 percent.

But growth per person has averaged only 1.4 percent since then.

Economic growth has averaged about 2 percent over the last six months.

However, for the last 25 years economic growth has averaged 2.5 percent.

Since then, growth has averaged less than 3 percent a year.

Growth over this 11-year period averaged only about 2.6 percent.

He forecasts growth in the second half will average around 2 percent.

Economic growth has averaged 8 percent over the last ten years.

Over the decades, economic growth has averaged 2 percent a year or so.

Economic growth in the middle years of both decades averaged more than 3% a year.