The highest rates are recorded in Northern America and the lowest rates in Asian and African regions.

Sub Saharan Africa has the world's lowest average primary school completion rates.

Through mortgage loan insurance, homeowners have access to the lowest possible mortgage rates with a down payment as low as five percent, permitting more Canadian households access to homeownership.

This was in response to PEI having one of the highest rates of cervical cancer and lowest rates of screening.

The lowest rates were observed in Latvia (1.31), Hungary and Portugal (both 1.32) and Germany (1.36).

Countries with the lowest literacy rates in the world are Burkina Faso (12.8 ), Niger (14.4 ) and Mali (19 ).

Moreover, transatlantic defense trade must be used to augment European capabilities at the lowest possible cost.

To make better use of resources, mine action needed to be coordinated at the lowest possible level.

(Israel has one of the lowest donation rates in the world, so the government pays for transplant surgery performed outside the country.)

All of the available data show that Germany had one of Europe s lowest rates of productivity growth over the last ten years.

Out in intergalactic space, those three prerequisites for the open ended creation of knowledge are at their lowest possible supply.

The lowest possible GCS (the sum) is 3 (deep coma or death), while the highest is 15 (fully awake person).

Desirous of promoting agreements to strengthen regional peace and security at the lowest possible level of armaments and military forces,

According to Credit Suisse, only about 37 of residents own their own homes, one of the lowest rates of home ownership in Europe.

The averaging method has been used for Kigali given that the average actual rates from January to December 2005 yield the lowest estimates.

But at that point, I would probably already have the lowest possible mortgage and the most enlarged possible penis so I would outlaw spam on my first day in office.

Indeed, Italy boasted the lowest deficit to GDP ratio in the eurozone, and the Italian government had no problem refinancing at attractive interest rates.

On his home front, he needs to cultivate, at the lowest possible price, an image as a champion of the Palestinian cause.

Telecom engineers are often expected, as most engineers are, to provide the best solution possible for the lowest cost to the company.

San Marino is considered to have a highly stable economy, with one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe, no national debt and a budget surplus.

Moreover, companies would have an incentive to produce and distribute drugs at the lowest possible price, because only when the poor could use them would the drug save the greatest possible number of lives.

A DIW Berlin study shows that, since the monetary union s launch in 1999, Germany has recorded some of the eurozone s lowest rates of GDP and productivity growth.

South Korea s divorce rate has doubled, fertility rates have fallen to the fourth lowest among advanced economies, and the suicide rate is the highest in the OECD.

There nevertheless remained a problem of overcrowding in prisons, although, according to Council of Europe data, prison occupancy rates in Greece were among the lowest in Europe.

Mortality rates for women aged under 50 years remained the lowest and most consistent, staying below 8 deaths per 100,000 women for the period 1988 to 2002.

The US Federal Reserve, for example, is aggressively cutting interest rates to forestall a possible recession.

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It is down by nearly 5 since the beginning of 2011, matching the lowest level plumbed since the Bretton Woods System of pegged exchange rates collapsed in 1973.

Argentina's population has long had one of Latin America's lowest growth rates (recently, about one percent a year) and it also enjoys a comparatively low infant mortality rate.

In that regard, Singapore has always been active in the promotion of road safety, and has one of the lowest fatal and injury accident rates in the world.

Everything about the production method is geared towards turning live animals into machines for converting grain into meat or eggs at the lowest possible cost.

Indeed, according to a study published in 2003, and other later studies through 2009, Sweden has the highest sexual assault rate in Europe, and among the lowest conviction rates.

Efforts to ensure that the senior citizens are granted special privileges that guarantee their ability to travel from country to country at the lowest possible cost

In this case, it is entirely possible to have very low interest rates co exist with strong growth.

The local comprehensive health care systems with the highest rates were Estelí (77 per cent), León (74.8 per cent) and Carazo (74.2 per cent), while those with the lowest rates were the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (45.9 per cent) and Jinotega (55 per cent).

The lowest possible Gini coefficient is 0, which indicates that everyone has exactly the same income the highest possible coefficient is 1, which indicates that a single person has all of the income and no one else has any.

Given that Germany also has one of the eurozone s lowest investment rates, its GDP growth is likely to be among Europe s slowest in the coming years, making significant wage increases unlikely.

The departments of Quiché and Alta Verapaz have the country's lowest literacy rates with the situation being especially acute among rural women (49.2 and 50.7 per cent for the two departments, respectively).

As indicated in paragraph 1 of the report, consistent with the views of the Advisory Committee, the recosting exercise reflects such operational rates of exchange as would allow for the lowest estimates.

One possible explanation is that the relationship between GDP growth rates and a country s current account position is not linear.

The highest point is Ásotthalom (125 m), the lowest is Gyálarét (78 m lowest point of Hungary).

The lowest unique bid wins.

That way, the power of competitive markets can ensure that, once a drug is developed, it is made available at the lowest possible price not at an inflated monopoly price.

The triclinic class 1 has the lowest possible symmetry with no symmetry elements at all, and has just a centre of symmetry, but no axes of symmetry or mirror planes.

As indicated in paragraph 2 of the report (A 60 600), consistent with the views of the Advisory Committee, the recosting exercise reflects such operational rates of exchange as would allow for the lowest estimates.