This means that economic growth is not keeping pace with the growth in population and that most African countries are far behind the 7 per cent annual growth rate required to reduce poverty by half by 2015.
这意味着经济增长赶不上人口增长速度，而且大多数非洲国家远远未达到在2015年前将贫穷降低一半所必须达到的7％的年增长率。