Growth can be physical or personal. (i.e. mental or emotional) Physicians will monitor the growth of a baby for instance to make sure that the child is growing at the normal rate for a human. personal growth comes from learning a valuable lesson and using it effectively to be better at treating yourself and others. Development can be of skills, coordination, and also physical such as puberty. You can also develop a better personality based on personal growth.

1) Growth is the one dimensional increase of size. Development is the description of the various processes that are taking place, such as progress, improvement, structural changes, successive stages. 2) "growth (plural growths) 1. an increase in size, number, value, or strength 2. (biology) the act of growing, getting bigger or higher 3. (biology) something that grows or has grown 4. (pathology) an abnormal mass such as a tumor - Synonyms (increase in size): enlargement, expansion, increase, increment (act of growing): development, maturation (something that grows or has grown): vegetation (pathology: abnormal mass such as a tumor): outgrowth, cancer, mass" Source: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/growth 3) "to develop (third-person singular simple present develops, present participle developing, simple past and past participle developed) 1. To progress. Let's see how things develop and then make our decision. 2. To progress through a sequence of stages. Isabel developed from a tropical depression to a tropical storm to a hurricane. An embryo develops into a fetus and then into an infant. 3. To create. I need to develop a plan for the next three weeks. 4. To bring out images latent in photographic film. Please develop this roll of film. 5. (Chess) To place ones pieces actively. I need to develop my white-square bishop. 6. (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack." Source: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/develop

Growth mean increase in physical structure with reference to age of an object while development means increasing of other factors such as mental, social, and secondry sexual charactor in an object at which we say person has some maturity. Subhash Choudhary, Indore

difference between growth and development