The fragile security situation, combined with high unemployment, has kept the rate of returns of internally displaced persons low.

Education leads to decreased infant mortality

The Commission is encouraged by the reduction of the unemployment rate.

In all groups and regions, however, the proportion of elderly is expected to rise as the proportion of children falls with declining fertility.

Significantly, 8.5 per cent of the total population is children under age 5, and the birth rate is decreasing (there are differences between the cantons and regions).

This is a consequence of the reduced birth rate and the emigration of young people abroad.

Cut spending, it was said, and inflation would fall.

Also driving China s high investment rate is the declining efficiency of investment capital, reflected in China s high incremental capital output ratio (annual investment divided by annual output growth).

In 2007, the country's rate of population decline was the fourth highest in the world.

There had also been a considerable decrease in the dropout rate among women.

There is nothing progressive about large budget deficits and a rising debt to GDP ratio. After all, large deficits have no reliable effect on reducing unemployment, and deficit reduction can be consistent with falling unemployment.

LVF Liquid volume fraction is the ratio of the liquid volumetric flow rate to the total volumetric flow rate.

With the Italian debt GDP ratio currently at roughly 106 , lower borrowing costs reduced the public debt ratio by more than eight percentage points.

A strong dollar at home means a dollar that retains its purchasing power, thanks to a low rate of inflation.

Since 1996, there has been a decrease in the ratio of female to male earnings.

And with that lower saving rate will come a smaller current account surplus.

And the U.N. says it's a reduction with 1.8 percent.

1. Expresses concern at the low implementation rate of the projects undertaken through the Development Account

This is a consequence of the decreasing birth rate and reproduction, as well as the large number of young people leaving the country.

Due to the effects of AIDS, the index of life expectancy has been on the decrease in the last few years.

The variance between the initial and revised estimates is due to the lower rate of implementation with regards to the outreach programme.

The net luminosity decay rate is lower, at 0.0075 magnitudes per day for Type II P, compared to 0.012 magnitudes per day for Type II L.

There is a significant increase of Aids prevalence in this group of people, at different health care centers, with particular incidence in the city of Chimoio where the prevalence almost duplicated from 10 in 1994 to 19 in 1996.

11. Notes with concern that the rate of provision of interpretation services to the regional and other major groupings has declined

They use the quantity termed the degree day to determine how strong of a use there will be for heating (heating degree day) or cooling (cooling degree day).

Low health literacy reduces the success of treatment and increases the risk of medical error.

(The difference between the sexes was due to the typically lower weight and water to body mass ratio of women.

Despite the low birth rate, the population is still growing at an average annual rate of 0.23 .

Hypothermia during clinical death Reduced body temperature, or therapeutic hypothermia, during clinical death slows the rate of injury accumulation, and extends the time period during which clinical death can be survived.

Complicated abortion is believed to be responsible for 15 percent of the maternal mortality rate.

It therefore recommends that the vacancy delayed deployment rate be maintained at 10 per cent.

With an increasing number of arms embargo violations, the trend has continued to rely less on air transport to ferry the illegal arms shipments.

Furthermore, lower levels of mycotoxins in pest resistant corn mean fewer birth defects, such as spina bifida, and less toxicity to livestock.

On the other hand, globalization probably has reduced the quality of Africa s domestic leagues relative to European leagues.

It is their unwillingness to do so at the existing exchange rate that causes the dollar to fall relative to other currencies.

The unemployment rate, at 12.4 , is higher than in every other state except Nevada.

Per the United Nations, the urban population growth rate for 2000 2005 was 2.3 .

The incidence is 0.78 of the population and the prevalence ranges from 0.18 to 0.32 .

Our nation economy has shown a strong recovery in the last five years, and we achieved a growth rate of 8.4 per cent last year the highest in Asia.

No region has reported a rate of coverage nearing or surpassing 75 per cent.

The program would at least partly pay for itself, with additional payments to workers on short hours offset by lower unemployment (and thus lower payments to those who are completely without work).

Second, it could absorb excess German savings by letting unemployment rise as local manufacturers fired workers (because rising unemployment forces down the savings rate).

Thus, a total fertility rate of 2.1 represents replacement level, while anything below represents a sub replacement fertility rate leading to population decline.

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.

This explains why someone like Mubarak always received over 90 of the vote, albeit amid indifferent turnout.