The population growth rate surged as the mortality rate dropped more rapidly than the birth rate.

The effective interest rate, effective annual interest rate, annual equivalent rate (AER) or simply effective rate is the interest rate on a loan or financial product restated from the nominal interest rate as an interest rate with annual compound interest payable in arrears.

Some have gone as far as proposing NIPR (negative interest rate policy).

It earned a rate of return on its foreign assets that was nearly twice as high as the rate it paid foreigners on US assets.

So, if the PBOC sets the interest rate on one year deposits at 3 , commercial banks can offer depositors a rate as high as 3.3 .

The murder rate is even higher under Putin than it was under Yeltsin, as is the traffic death rate.

As of 2007, the city's unemployment rate is 9.4 .

As of 2011 the official graduation rate is 62 .

Other economic indicators, such as interest rate spreads and the rate of job loss, also turned around in early 2009.

As expected, the rate of reported convictions, which varied significantly, was lower than the rate of reported investigations or prosecutions.

The other eurozone countries are not as competitive as Germany at today s exchange rate.

Unexpected yen appreciation could cause large carry trade exchange rate losses, as could unexpected closing of the interest rate gap with Japan.

Serbia is in an acute demographic crisis since the beginning of the 1990s, as death rate has continuously exceeded its birth rate.

Deflation increases the real (inflation adjusted) debt burden, as well as the real interest rate.

Another element impacting upon mortality rate is the religious prohibition against abortion among Muslims even in medically recommended cases, as well as the high rate of births among elderly women.

And that rate has been escalating at the same rate as children not walking to school anymore, again, because of our development patterns.

Just as consumers can rate products, parents and students should be able to rate and provide feedback on the performance of individual teachers.

Since China s current benchmark interest rate is higher than the comparable rate in the United States, individuals and institutions have an incentive to keep renminbi as assets and dollars as debt.

These changes are likely to make today s attempts to find an equilibrium yuan dollar exchange rate seem just as chimerical in hindsight as previous calculations of the yen dollar equilibrium rate.

The accident rate per 100 million traveled kilometers dropped by 20 from 30,2 to 24,1 between these years, but the total number as well as rate of deaths didn't go down.

Moreover, as Japan s society ages, the household savings rate will decrease dramatically.

In the early 1980 s, China s saving rate was twice as high.

Physiological scaling Many physiological and biochemical processes (such as heart rate, respiration rate or the maximum reproduction rate) show scaling, mostly associated with the ratio between surface area and mass (or volume) of the animal.

You'll find the highest HIV rate in the world in African countries, and yet you'll find Senegal, down here the same rate as United States.

Parsis have a high literacy rate as of 2001, the literacy rate is 97.9 , the highest of any Indian community (the national average is 64.8 ).

Registered unemployment rate among women, employment rate among women (as a part of total female population), economically active women rate, women's participation in executive authority, and ratio between men and women aged over 15 in literacy.

As long as China s commodity demand grows at a higher rate than global supply, prices will rise.

As a result, the unemployment rate rose to 9.1 of the labor force.

Monetary policy is now drawing on a more comprehensive toolkit, such as the policy rate, the interest rate corridor, required reserve ratios, and the reserve option mechanism.

As a result, the interest rate for 12 month fixed deposits has reached 3.9 .

Still others dismiss the change in Chinese exchange rate policy as beside the point.

In general, the rate of physical violence during pregnancy decreases as household income increases.

Notes The exchange rate of Kazakh tenge as of 01.01.2004 was 143.33 T 1.

Sana'a is the fastest growing capital city in the world with a growth rate of 7 , while the growth rate of the nation as a whole is 3.2 .

In children under five years and adults over 40 years, the fatality rate may be as much as 20 .

The rate of sharing syringes has been as high as 50 per cent in some countries of the region.

A recent study found that taxing capital gains and dividends as ordinary income, subject to a maximum 28 rate on long term capital gains (the pre 1997 rate), could finance a cut in the corporate tax rate from 35 to 26 .

Using RMB appreciation as the primary tool to fight inflation implies accepting a temporarily higher unemployment rate now in exchange for a permanently lower unemployment rate in the future.

As for China s renminbi, it is still supported by a highly political exchange rate regime.

Either choice could mean a higher future rate of inflation, just as financial markets fear.

As defined in the proposed legislation, the tax rate is 23 for the first year.

Table 1.1 Population size, growth rate and structure by gender as results of population censuses ( )

Israel's divorce rate has been increasing in recent years, as demonstrated by the following table

ABR Available bit rate a minimum guaranteed rate is specified.

And the fact that China s market exchange rate was far lower (i.e., more yuan per dollar) than the earlier PPP exchange rate had been interpreted as evidence of huge undervaluation.