Definition of "rate of growth" []

• The rate of increase in size per unit time (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Automation will probably soon begin to slow the rate of growth of the service-and-information-producing labor force a point to which I shall return in the final chapter."
• "With the junglelike rate of growth here, though, she knew that if she were to stay, she would need help; otherwise the fields and yard would soon heal over with weeds and brush and scrub until the house would disappear in a thicket as completely as the bramble-covered palace of Sleeping Beauty."
• "Thus, sales to LDCs were expected to grow by about 19% per annum over the next three years, or about five times the rate of growth in non-LDCs."