The number of hours of sunshine are among the highest in the country.

Homicide rates in Latin America are the highest in the world.

The highest rates occur in women 16 35 years of age.

Rogaland has a fertility rate of 2.18 children per woman, which is the highest in the country, and one of the highest in Europe.

Population Population growth in the United Arab Emirates is among the highest in world, mostly due to immigration.

Although gender parity in primary education has improved, dropout rates for girls are higher than for boys.

Suicide rates for rural residents are higher than urban.

Inflation convergence between high headline and low core rates, as well as between high emerging market and low advanced country rates will occur at levels higher than currently anticipated.

Child mortality among the worst in the world in 2001 has dropped by 25 .

Colombia s homicide rate, for years one of the highest in the world, has almost halved since 2002.

Life expectancy in Hong Kong is 79.16 years for males and 84.79 years for females as of 2009, making it one of the highest life expectancies in the world.

Mortality from cervical cancer in Nicaragua was 11.85 per 100,000 women in 1998 and 11.73 per 100,000 women in 1999, one of the highest rates in Latin America.

Iraq also argues that the data provided by Saudi Arabia do not show that there has been an increase in PTSD in Saudi Arabia above the rates normally prevalent in adult populations.

Toronto has a comparable rate of car theft to various US cities, although it is not among the highest in Canada.

Besides, the number of poor people living in this district is 124,803, which is the highest in Hong Kong.

Owing to demographic pressure and women entering the labour force, the region has one of the highest rates of new entrants into the labour market.

And that s before the coming deluge from generous public employee pensions and health costs. At the heart of California s problem is its deranged progressive tax system, which includes among the highest personal income, sales, corporate, and gas rates of any state.

Rates are higher in men than in women, with males three to four times more likely to kill themselves than females.

Historically the debt portion of a LBO will range from 60 90 of the purchase price, although during certain periods the debt ratio can be higher or lower than the historical averages.

Support Manchester United is reputed to be the most popular football club in the world, with one of the highest average home attendance in Europe.

Poverty in the region, where agriculture and tourism are the main industries, grew 11 percent between 2007 and 2012 to 24.1 percent, one of the highest in Spain.

Bangladesh had the highest primary school enrolment rates in the developing world and had already achieved gender parity in both primary and secondary schools.

And income inequality in Japan ranks among the lowest in Asia.

These average rates mask stark differences between countries.

However, the Bedouin infant mortality rate is still the highest in Israel, and one of the highest in the developed world.

Helsinki's current population density of 2,739.36 people per square kilometer is by far the highest in Finland.

English is the official language, and the literacy rate, 98 percent, is one of the highest in the Western Hemisphere.

The higher the growth rate, the more revenues the government will collect without raising tax rates and higher revenues enable smaller deficits.

The high population of Malé and the scarcity of land have created a high demand for housing. It has also made rent in Malé comparatively one of the highest in the world.

Paraguay had one of the highest incarceration rates for women and she wondered how many women had been imprisoned for illegal abortions.

In 2012, education firm Pearson ranked Australian education as thirteenth in the worldThe Education Index, published with the UN's Human Development Index in 2008, based on data from 2006, lists Australia as 0.993, amongst the highest in the world, tied for first with Denmark and Finland.

Pacific region, 1999 2002

Life expectancy was only 45 years infant mortality was around 128 per thousand births, while maternal mortality was among the highest in the world, at 1,289 per 100,000 births.

The cost of incarcerating two million Americans one of the highest per capita rates in the world should be viewed as a subtraction from GDP, yet it is added on.

The relocation to the ECA complex is therefore an attractive option, especially when considering the fact that commercial rental rates in Addis Ababa are higher than or similar to those charged by ECA.

To help women improve their education, many central and local agencies have applied higher additional allowance rates during the education period for women than for men.

Pacific Blue claims that the airport charges that it faced were not only high compared with other destinations in the region, but much higher than the rates paid by its rival, the New Caledonia national carrier, Aircalin.

German banks might be able to issue securities at very low rates, but these rates are still higher than what they earn on their ECB deposits.

With per capita GDP of more than 37,000, Japan still ranks among the world s richest countries, specializing in the highest value links of global supply chains. And income inequality in Japan ranks among the lowest in Asia.

The large volume of unwanted pregnancies is also closely tied to sexual violence, which victimizes seven out of ten Bolivian women (the second highest rate in Latin America, after Haiti).

Sunshine duration hours total around 3,000 per year (the highest results in Europe), from an average 5.2 hours of sunshine duration per day in December to an average above 12 hours in July.

This is still significantly above the world average, and more than 50 times that of the poorest nations in which people will die from global warming.

Venezuela is among the top 20 countries in terms of endemism.

In Australia, for example, 2.3 of the population use meth, and 3.5 use ecstasy at least once a year one of the highest rates in the world.

Even though the employment rate of men is higher than that of women, the unemployment rate for men is higher (10.2 ) than that of women (9.9 ).