It is facing mounting fiscal and environmental costs from damage done by the sevenfold increase of the vehicles over the past 30 years.

India-China trade had already been growing at a phenomenal rate, reaching $13.6 billion last year - a sevenfold increase from 1998.

Volkswagen sold 338,000 cars in America in 2002, a sevenfold increase from 1993.

Last financial year, some 740,000 people entered Government training programmes, compared with 110,000 in 1978-79 - a sevenfold increase.

QXL said it had 2.6 million members at the end of the period, a sevenfold increase from last year.

That is a sevenfold increase in the number of cases since 1978, when the bankruptcy laws were last overhauled.

According to census data there was a sevenfold increase between 1975 and 2005.

This sevenfold increase had evolved in just four years and nine months.

With China, Japan registered a record $25 billion trade deficit last year, a sevenfold increase over the 1993 level.

Disney earned $703.3 million last year, a sevenfold increase from 1984, and revenues nearly tripled, to $4.59 billion.