A country s overall consumption rate is, of course, the flip side of its savings rate.

Today the overall literacy rate in Albania is 98.7 the male literacy rate is 99.2 and female literacy rate is 98.3 .

It does not appear to affect mortality or the overall hospitalization rate.

The high unemployment rate among women was a reflection of Latvia's overall unemployment rate, which stood at 10.6 per cent.

The overall crime rate of Finland is not high in the EU context.

Furthermore, the overall support cost reimbursement rate is declining for reasons mentioned earlier.

The hurdle rate is the minimum acceptable return on an investment i.e., the project appropriate discount rate.

In 2001 the overall illiteracy rate was 20.5 per cent, with the rate for women being slightly below that for men.

Ms. Šimonović expressed concern at the high overall illiteracy rate and asked what steps were being taken to reduce the rate.

The overall vacancy rate in the Department was 3.8 per cent compared to a budgeted vacancy rate of 6.5 per cent.

The overall literacy rate in Pakistan has been improving although at a slow pace.

The overall literacy rate for women is undoubtedly low much lower than that for men.

The overall literacy rate is 86.4 , and is 91.4 among males and 81.4 among females.

But are foreign owners getting more than a fair rate of return?

Venous return is the rate of blood flow back to the heart.

The overall rate of infection is also affected by the short duration of the infectious stage.

The unemployment rate has been in decline since 2003, and the overall rate of employment is the highest since statistics were first compiled in 1995.

Considering the renminbi s recent appreciation, the rate of return could reach 3 4 .

Spending by China s consumers has lagged behind the Chinese economy s overall rate of growth for many years.

Overall, nearly 60 of fatal burns occur in Southeast Asia with a rate of 11.6 per 100,000.

Improvement in the rate of redeployment is important for the overall capacity, robustness and effectiveness of SDS.

The indigenous background of female prisoners was assessed as a factor in the overall female imprisonment rate.

As a result of these developments, the overall rate of disbursement against the approved Mission budget dropped.

The huge surge in the GDP growth rate of the more diversified economies brought overall per capita income up to its highest rate of 2.7 per cent.

Though the return varied by decade, even turning negative in some decades, overall it performed fairly consistently.

Hard core poverty is set to be eliminated by 2010, with the overall poverty rate falling to 2.8 .

In June, pork prices rose 57 year on year, contributing nearly two percentage points to the overall inflation rate.

In all cases, however, exchange rate policies have played a central role in determining these countries overall macroeconomic results.

If the saving rate now rises quickly to that level, it will be hard to keep overall GDP growing.

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.

It represented the first lunar sample return mission by the Soviet Union, and was the third lunar sample return mission overall, following the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions.

What matters to Japanese investors is the overall return in yen terms, not simply the difference in interest rates.

The rate of property law implementation, a vital pre condition for return, has continued to climb.

Unemployment gap between Jews and Palestinians in Israel Since 1996, the overall unemployment rate in Israel has been rising steadily.

The overall birth rate dropped from 2.28 in 2000, 2.25 in 2001, and 2.28 in 2002, to 2.13 in 2003.

The overall objective is to reduce the general mortality rate by 40 per cent by 2010, to 21 per thousand.

The reduced requirements were due mainly to an overall actual vacancy rate of 18.2 per cent experienced for international staff, compared with an 8 per cent vacancy rate in the budget.

Women are much more responsible, conscientious and they have an almost 100 rate of timely credit return.

The overall literacy rate is 86.0 , and is 91.6 among males (the second highest in the province) and 80.4 among females.

Liquidity injections into a zero interest rate developed world send return starved investors scrambling for growth opportunities elsewhere.

China may resume a managed float of its exchange rate, particularly if the uncertainty of the overall post crisis economic situation diminishes.

In the United States, the overall unemployment rate is around 9 , but among 18 25 year olds, it is a staggering 19 .

Thus, net exports contributed 10.8 to China s overall GDP growth rate, or only about 1.1 percentage point of 9 growth in 2008.

Rates of homicide linked to psychosis are similar to those linked to substance misuse, and parallel the overall rate in a region.

The high illiteracy rate among working age women has numerous adverse effects on domestic health, children's education levels and overall economic development.