These average rates mask stark differences between countries.

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

Pacific region, 1999 2002

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.

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.

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.

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

Rates per 1,000 live births.

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

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.

However rates vary markedly in different regions with rates as low as 3.4 (men) and 6.8 (women) in rural India and as high as 68.9 (men) and 72.5 (women) in Poland.

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

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

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

Suicide rates for rural residents are higher than urban.

Global rates of asthma have increased significantly between the 1960s and 2008 with it being recognized as a major public health problem since the 1970s.

The Committee is also concerned that primary education is not compulsory and at the high dropout rates in particular of girls in secondary schools, partly due to pregnancies.

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.

Romney had no miracle cure, either, but he attempted to tap into voters wishful thinking bias, by promising to reduce the size of the government and cut marginal tax rates.

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.

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.

In the United States, people are fired more easily than in any other country, and the unemployment rate at the time was among the lowest 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.

Among the Arab education system, the gap between the genders was also in favor of the male minors, although the dropout rates of Arab female minors exceeded those of Jewish female minors.

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.

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.

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.

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

In 1998 we examined OECD data for a correlation between national unemployment rates in the mid 1990 s and current tax rates on labor.

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.