Overall, computer penetration rates are very similar to Internet penetration rates.

If interest rates are low, we can attract a great deal of money from the public.

But after inflation succumbed, unemployment did not fall or not by much.

After the war, due to different types of registration, there were large variations of death rates for newborns in different regions.

Chile made its transition to high growth in the 1980 s on the back of a large depreciation.

Over the years, organizations of the system have scored major successes in immunizing children and reducing child mortality.

The high ice production rates within these polynyas leads to a large amount of brine rejection into the surface waters.

We have found that too much loose money from donor funds sometimes interferes with the lowering of interest rates.

More is being accomplished in public services and in health care and ambitious projects are under way to reconstruct our infrastructure, especially in the areas of home and road construction.

As in many other African societies, prebendalism and high rates of corruption continue to constitute major challenges to Nigeria.

That policy had led to a significant increase in attendance of girls of 21.9 per cent.

Indeed, even in countries with high primary school completion rates, many young people do not attend secondary school.

Second, fertility rates and population growth in the Horn of Africa continue to be extremely high, even as children perish in the famine.

In general, growth was broadly based, supported by robust export growth and higher commodity prices as well as strong domestic demand driven by low interest rates.

In spite of the commendable drop in the infection rate, Kenya's health sector continues to face serious challenges from malaria and other communicable diseases.

But the ECB has signaled that big interest rate cuts are unlikely as long as the German economy remains strong, with relatively low unemployment.

In countries like the United States, where households keep a large share of what they produce, consumption rates tend to be high relative to GDP.

Economic growth rates in other systemically large countries, including Turkey and Mexico, have risen as well, despite European and US headwinds.

The cost may seem significant in a world of rising unemployment rates, with many countries still struggling with ongoing financial and economic crises, and others staring bankruptcy in the face.

Flow rates on the Columbia are affected by many large upstream reservoirs, many diversions for irrigation, and, on the lower stretches, reverse flow from the tides of the Pacific Ocean.

Reduced rates of return will lower investment rates.

Although birth rates are falling, one third of the overall population is below 15 years old, and large numbers of young women are reaching reproductive age, or soon will be.

Participation rates of women in higher education are greater than those of men.

T hat has to subtract growth and could cause core inflation to pick up.

Unemployment fell to 3.8 without any surge in inflation.

Still, I believe there can be little serious argument about the importance of a policy aimed at avoiding major further increases in CO2 emissions.

In Brazil, low savings and various institutional impediments keep interest rates high and investment low, while the educational system does not serve significant parts of the population well.

Savings rates shot up.

Infant Mortality Rates

Indeed, the government s key economic committee, the Central Work Committee, has concluded that after years of high growth and low inflation, China is on a route to high growth with high inflation.

In 2004, we looked at labor force participation rates and again at unemployment. Still no correlation.

At any rate, employment seems to have become decoupled from growth.

As inequality rises, consumption rates generally drop and savings rates generally rise.

There are other instruments available for increasing domestic saving and reducing consumption besides the fiscal balance.

Use of higher doses of radioiodine reduces the incidence of treatment failure, with penalty for higher response to treatment consisting mostly of higher rates of eventual hypothyroidism which requires hormone treatment for life.

Vacancy rates and staffing

The pace of urbanization is astonishing.

Birth Rates and Fertility Rates

Mortality Rates and Causes of Death

Vacancy rate analysis

High vacancy rates

Unfortunately, in no month before or since have births outpaced deaths.

First, poverty rates increased despite overall growth in the economy and in employment rates.

The paper that reported the story is owned by the government and sells more copies than all other newspapers combined.

Indeed, thanks to the scheme, school attendance rates have improved, sometimes by as much as 10 , and dropout rates have declined.