year-on-year

English

Alternative forms

• year on year

Adjective

year-on-year (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of year-over-year
   • 2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in Rail, page 52:

     Within six months, the total number of passengers forecast to use the line in the entire first year (650,000) had already been passed. For the first 12 months, the figure was in excess of 1.2 million. And overall, it has grown year-on-year, reaching over two million in 2018-19.

   • 2022 September 25, Martin Farrer, “A Ponzi scheme by any other name: the bursting of China’s property bubble”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Prices for new homes in 70 Chinese cities fell by a worse-than-expected 1.3% year on year in August, according to official figures, reflecting a turbulent 12 months in which China’s housing sector has gone from an unstoppable driver of growth and prosperity to being the chief threat to the world’s powerhouse economy.

See also

• period-on-period
• quarter-on-quarter
• month-on-month

References

• “year-on-year”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.