For all that growth, however, absolute levels of adoption remain low, especially in the West.

然而，尽管出现了所有这些增长，但采用率的绝对水平仍然很低，尤其是在西方。

Women also make up a disproportionate number of the globally poor. 70% of those living at or below absolute poverty levels worldwide are women.

妇女在全球贫困人口中所占的比例也不成比例。全世界生活在绝对贫困线或以下的人中有 70% 是妇女。

So it's not just about how much do you make in absolute, what's your absolute income level, but also about where are you relative to others around you?

因此，这不仅仅是关乎你的绝对收入水平，也是关于你相对于你周围的其他人来说处于什么位置？

But, apart from short-period changes in the level of income, it is also obvious that a higher absolute level of income will tend, as a rule, to widen the gap between income and consumption.

但是，除了收入水平的短期变化外，收入绝对水平的提高通常会扩大收入与消费之间的差距，这一点也很明显。

Next, nations begin what Rostow called the Drive to Technological Maturity, in which technological growth of the earlier periods begins to bear fruit, in the form of population growth, reductions in absolute poverty levels, and more diverse job opportunities.

接下来，各国开始罗斯托所谓的技术成熟驱动力，早期的技术增长开始以人口增长、绝对贫困水平降低和更多样化的就业机会的形式结出果实。