Some crime types are above average, notably the highest homicide rate in Western Europe.

There is a higher than average suicide rate associated with schizophrenia.

In the 1970 s, US money supply grew at an average annual rate of 9.6 , the highest rate in the previous half century inflation averaged 7.4 , also a half century high.

The cancer rate in Vieques was 27 percent higher than the average for Puerto Rico as a whole.

Since the mid 1990 s, African economies have been recording growth rates that are higher than world averages.

In 2001, the number of passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants was 623 (above the national average of 575).

The sharpest growth in relative terms was in the human services sector of EPI (Figure 4).

The Red Sea is higher than the Eastern Mediterranean, so the canal serves as a tidal strait that pours Red Sea water into the Mediterranean.

People who react faster have, on average, higher intelligence scores and live longer.

Orange County, Ventura County and the San Francisco Bay Area have the highest median prices, each approaching 650,000.

The unemployment rate is around 11.7 , which is above the EU average, while real GDP growth in 2011 was 8.0 , five times the euro zone average.

Do you see the middle section moving down and the outer sections moving up? It's completely static.

On average, each aircraft performed 360 sorties a year, a total considerably higher than that of any other combat aircraft in Afghanistan.

Hence, an important task of the political process is to select those with above average morality and ability.

On average, alumni make up 63 of the boards of the top 100 US universities, both public and private.

The Brčko District has been praised for maintaining a multiethnic population and a level of prosperity significantly above the national average.

The share of gross value added generated by the agricultural and services sectors in the total gross value added of the region is above the national average in 2000, whereas the share of industry is below.

On average, per capita income in the countries that are the source of these investments is four times higher than in the target countries.

The total number of countries affected by a natural disaster in 2004 was 123, higher than the previous 10 year average.

The study showed that when taking into account the differences in personal qualities and choices of profession, the wages of men, on the average, were 23 higher than those of women.

Sweden s current account surplus has averaged above a whopping 7 of GDP over the last decade Germany s has averaged close to 6 during the same period.

In 2007, Canadian per capita power consumption was among the highest in the world, with an average of 16,995 kWh per annum.

Income levels are higher on average in the US, but mainly because the Nordic countries work fewer hours per week.

The Nicaraguan population, estimated at 5.2 million in 2001, is growing at an average rate of 2 per cent per year, which is one of the highest rates in Latin America.

This is still significantly above the world average, and more than 50 times that of the poorest nations in which people will die from global warming.

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In addition, Mexico was the first Latin American member of the Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development OECD (since 1994), and considered an upper middle income country by the World Bank.

One cause of the financial crisis was financial institutions appetite for selecting (and in some cases, creating) products with above average returns in normal times but excessive losses in exceptional cases.

The rates in Brussels are higher than the national average (1.79 in 1997, 1.93 in 2002 and 2.09 in 2007), while they are below the average in Flanders (1.54 in 1997, 1.56 in 2002 and 1.77 in 2007), due to Brussels having relatively more Muslims and Africans and Flanders relatively fewer.

But, in terms of R D spending as a share of GDP, the US ranked only eighth in 2009 (at 2.9 of GDP). The US share remained above the OECD average, but this was mainly the result of national differences in the amount of R D defense spending.

In 2003, for the first time, the industry fell slightly from first place to third in terms of profitability, but its profits were still well above the median.

A total of 82 of Irish people surveyed earlier this year believed Ireland had benefited from EU membership, the highest score in Europe, where the average was 54 .

Perhaps the greatest obstacle will be the huge legacy of public debt, which now averages about 110 of GDP in the advanced economies the highest level since World War II.

It is not out of line with other American yardsticks since the output trough, real GDP has grown at an average rate of 2.86 year, barely above the rate of growth of the US economy s productive potential.

More importantly, we rarely hear that the Antarctic sea ice is not only not declining, but is above average for the past year.

Peak load Peak demand, peak load or on peak are terms used in energy demand management describing a period in which electrical power is expected to be provided for a sustained period at a significantly higher than average supply level.

Medium term Recommendations

This new leadership elite is in many ways more cosmopolitan than its predecessors their average level of education is higher a few have foreign degrees.

The highest growth achieved in the Chavez years is lower than Venezuela s average during the second half of the 1990's, when oil was the exclusive domain of the private sector.

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In 2003, Germany ran a fiscal deficit that was close to 4 of GDP perhaps not high by today s standards, but higher than the EU average at the time.

A more comprehensive approach to child protection, clearer targets and higher resource levels need to be reflected in the plan, which should also address the needs of traumatized children in middle income countries.

America s 2008 stimulus barely budged consumption upward, and the 2009 fiscal stimulus cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per job many times higher than median pay.

Middle income families also insist on buying homes, despite the highest multiple of home price to income among advanced economies and a housing finance system that imposes high borrowing costs.

ROTTERDAM People who are lower on the socioeconomic ladder (indicated by their level of education, occupation, or income) have shorter and less healthy lives, on average, than those on higher rungs.