The very high rate of teen pregnancy has resulted in an equally high maternal mortality rate among young women.

She also expressed concern that despite the high literacy rate, the fertility rate, at 4.3, remained high and the contraceptive prevalence rate, 33 per cent in 1999, was low.

And then it's a high savings rate.

The high literacy rate had resulted in high standards of maternal and childcare.

We will have to decide whether to have a low birth rate, or a high death rate.

The success rate of the nerve transfers is very high.

The fertility rate is high, at 6.6 children per woman.

The high unemployment rate among women was a reflection of Latvia's overall unemployment rate, which stood at 10.6 per cent.

However, the Committee is very concerned that despite decreases in the infant mortality rate, under five mortality rate and maternal mortality rate, these rates remain very high.

Ms. Šimonović expressed concern at the high overall illiteracy rate and asked what steps were being taken to reduce the rate.

A significant factor among indigenous female prisoners is the high rate of recidivism.

The Bedouin population has a high rate of unemployment and low socio economic state.

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Now, the rate is still too high still too many people unnecessarily losing their lives.

The Committee is deeply concerned about the high rate of abortion of the girl foetus.

Although the epidemic appears to have peaked, transmission rate among the vulnerable population remains high.

Given the Gambia's high illiteracy rate, she wondered whether the NGOs had access to radio.

The vacancy rate for professional posts at the Economic Commission for Africa was too high.

Ms. Khan said the high rate of maternal mortality, exacerbated by the lack of access to family planning and reproductive health services and the high rate of clandestine abortions, was indicative of the poor quality of health care available to women.

Our 27 percent obesity rate is high, even for this country, and diabetes comes with it.

Though their loan recipients were high risk by ordinary standards, the default rate was extremely low.

Unemployment remains high, at a rate between 36 and 41 per cent in the Gaza Strip.

The high rate of response from the substantive branches in completing their procurement plans is commendable.

6. Notes with great concern the high vacancy rate in the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

This is a pro amateur, or pro am media critic who has this high fan out rate.

But if you give people vitamin D supplements, you don't change that high rate of heart disease.

The Committee is also concerned about the high junior middle school dropout rate in some rural areas.

The UK accepts that its air dropped cluster bombs have a failure rate that is unacceptably high.

Whereas in outlying rural areas the rate was still rather high, in Beirut, it was virtually zero.

Another element impacting upon mortality rate is the religious prohibition against abortion among Muslims even in medically recommended cases, as well as the high rate of births among elderly women.

There are very few young infants because they die high mortality rate and there's very few old people.

The rate of inflation decelerated in the Russian Federation and Uzbekistan, but still remained high in the former.

Young people report that the rate of substance abuse among street children and disadvantaged youth is typically high.

Because of the high death rate and mean of transmittal, this disease requires constant epidemiological supervision and monitoring.

Moreover, the persistent high vacancy rate makes it difficult to assess the needs for any particular organizational unit.

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

The high rate of deaths from failed abortions was an argument for the Government not to restrict safe abortions.

High world oil prices and capital inflows are strengthening the balance of payments and contributing to exchange rate appreciation.

The high school dropout rate in the Bedouin sector is 11.58 (compared to a 4.53 in the Jewish sector).

Much remained to be done to address the continuing high HIV prevalence rate and the growing number of OVC.

The rate of sharing syringes has been as high as 50 per cent in some countries of the region.

Australia has an apparent retention rate of 81.2 per cent of young women entering high school to Year 12.

Australia has an apparent retention rate of 81.2 per cent of young women entering high school to year 12.

The report also criticized the disproportionately high rate of arrest and the overuse of custodial sentences against indigenous women.

Poverty in the Caribbean was generally characterized by large income disparities and was linked to a high rate of unemployment.