Rates per 1,000 live births.

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.

Although these are over four times lower in developing than in developed countries, the trend remains a positive one.

These average rates mask stark differences between countries.

Suicide rates for rural residents are higher than urban.

The immediate increase in tax rates is only part of the story.

a Rates calculated on the basis of the average annual number of executions.

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

Pacific region, 1999 2002

In education and health, Sri Lanka had high indicators.

The figures for boys were 53 1, 45 1 and 9 1.

Areas with medium levels of malaria it decreases some it doesn't decrease as much. And areas with high levels of malaria actually, it's increasing a little bit, although that's not significant.

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.

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

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

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

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

However, these high rates may be affected by increasing rates of detection.

At the university level these figures were 38.7 and 247.5 respectively.

These are manifested in the high death and disability rates, especially in priority areas.

We are once again down to levels of access that are comparable to those we started with in 2004.

Age specific sex ratios in Aruba have been distorted by the immigration of foreign workers.

Other issues relate to the treatment of rates on unbound tariff lines, the extent of the binding coverage, the methodology to be used to the establish the base rate, or final bound rate, and the conversion of specific rates to ad valorem or percentage format.

The total fertility rate of 1.5 children per mother, is one of the lowest in the world.

The total fertility rate of 1.50 children per mother is one of the lowest in the world.

Israeli measures to ease closure have not yet had positive effects on those rates.

Increasing the rate at which stocks are delivered above current levels will require modern approaches to material management.

The new rates are effective from the school year in progress on 1 January 2005.

Therefore, while the 2004 experience was below budgeted rates, the 2005 experience to date has exceeded budgeted rates, resulting in a second year experience trending towards an offset of the first year shortfall.

India's government expenditures amount to about 15 of GDP, compared to an average of around 40 of GDP in the OECD. Rather, India's financial difficulties stem from a badly designed and administered tax system.

The coming recession may stem their growth temporarily, but only slightly.

The proportion of part time workers was one of the lowest in OECD in 1999.

The total fertility rate of 1.44 children per mother, is one of the lowest in the world.

Amendments to Manitoba's Employment Standards Code (http web2.gov.mb.ca laws statutes ccsm e110e.php) to provide for up to eight weeks of unpaid compassionate care leave and to provide better protection for workers returning from maternity, parental or compassionate care leave Basic foster care rates were increased by 2.5 percent effective July 1, 2003.

The Committee notes that the Secretary General has proposed, in the meantime, to maintain the present rates and methodology.

Now unemployment is Germany s biggest problem, standing at a postwar record.

Countries with particularly high rates of infection include Egypt (22 ), Pakistan (4.8 ) and China (3.2 ).

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

There are still no standard data on specific death rates for every disease.

Our current growth rates are not sufficient to achieve the Development Goals because of, for example, the high rates of population growth.

In many countries, the number of people living in poverty has increased since 1995.

In Eastern Europe, drug abuse levels are gradually reaching those of Western Europe.

A quotation by President John F. Kennedy states that high tax rates can strangle the economy, but Kennedy s was speaking a half century ago, when the top marginal tax rates were twice what they are today.

In Spain, the birthrate of 1.07 per woman is even lower than in Russia.

American tax rates will revert overnight to their Clinton era levels.