Between 1981 and 2000, annual rates of growth of per capita real gdp in advanced nations remained above or close to growth rates in emerging and developing nations, but since 2000, this relationship has been reversed. in addition, over the entire 1981-2017 period, average rates of population growth have been higher in nearly all emerging and developing nations than in advanced nations. what do these facts tell us about the average rate of growth of real gdp since 2000 in emerging and developing nations compared with advanced nations? because emerging and developing nations have had both higher average growth of per capita real gdp and higher average population growth than advanced nations since 2000,