(じょうしょうりつ)

じょうしょうりつ
noun
rate of increase; growth rate
businesseconomicsquantity
1. rate of increase; rate of rise
How much a figure has gone up, expressed as a percentage of its earlier value. Used of prices, wages, temperatures, and stock indexes.
今年(ことし)上昇率(じょうしょうりつ)(さん)パーセントだった。
This year's rate of increase was three percent.
The rate of price increases is outpacing wages.
The rate of land price increases differs greatly by area, and in the city center there are places where it exceeded ten percent.

上昇(じょうしょう) (rise, ascent) + (りつ) (rate, ratio). Standard vocabulary in economic news, where it is usually compared with the same month or year before.

Common collocations

  • 物価(ぶっか)上昇率(じょうしょうりつ): the rate of price increases
  • 上昇率(じょうしょうりつ)(たか): to have a high rate of increase
  • 前年比(ぜんねんひ)上昇率(じょうしょうりつ): the year-on-year rate of increase

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