At 15 per cent, the rate of infection in the Central African Republic is the second highest in the world and the highest in the Central African subregion.

After the Middle East, Africa has the second highest ratio of unemployment with an estimated rate of 10.4 per cent unemployed.

The Caribbean, with the second highest rate of spread of HIV AIDS in the world, was still grappling with its impact.

The highest enrolment rate is in pre primary education and vocational education has the highest drop out rate (Figure 30).

The highest employment rate is among university educated people.

Its government has run the country s economy and society into the ground, overseeing the world s steepest decline in output, highest inflation rate, and second highest murder rate, not to mention shortages beyond compare. And now it is systematically lying about the causes of the mess it created and inventing scapegoats.

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BERKELEY The United States now has the highest statutory corporate income tax rate among developed countries. Even after various deductions, credits, and other tax breaks, the effective marginal rate the rate that corporations pay on new US investments remains one of the highest in the world.

He has the second highest approval rating of the nation's 50 governors.

The rate of teenage pregnancy in Nicaragua is one of the highest in the western hemisphere.

Japan recorded its highest annual growth rate since 1996, whereas the European Union recovery remained sluggish.

You'll find the highest HIV rate in the world in African countries, and yet you'll find Senegal, down here the same rate as United States.

After energy production, livestock is the second highest contributor to atmosphere altering gases.

The huge surge in the GDP growth rate of the more diversified economies brought overall per capita income up to its highest rate of 2.7 per cent.

Also noting that the Declaration of Commitment on HIV AIDS adopted by the General Assembly in resolution S 26 2 of 27 June 2001 recognized the Caribbean region as having the second highest rate of infection after sub Saharan Africa,

It's never The Godfather it's never Citizen Kane it's always some third rate movie with some second rate star.

The annual average Ontario labour force participation rate of 68.4 percent in 2003 was the highest level since 1991.

The highest illiteracy rate is found among people aged between 41 and 64 (45.9 ), 66 of them being Aruban.

The Ifo business climate indicator, which had been rising since the second half of 2005, reached its highest level since Germany s unification boom. After years of stagnant growth, the German economy has been growing at an annual rate of about 2.5 in 2006.

And now we have 70 percent since 20 years, it's the highest rate of separation of garbage in the world.

Indeed, because of crime and corruption, that country was marked by the highest rate of capital flight in the world.

According to data from demographic and health surveys, the highest rate was in the department of Chinandega (34 per 100,000).

Vieques currently had the highest cancer rate in Puerto Rico and a fatal outcome in 50 percent of cancer cases.

This represents the highest Women at Risk visa grant rate in any programme year since that visa subclass was established.

The infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent and is about three times higher than the U.S. national average.

The Asia Pacific region has the highest savings rate in the world, although intercountry variations in savings rates have been noticed.

Lesotho is one of the poorest nations in the world and has the third highest HIV AIDS prevalence rate in the world.

The signs of social distress are multiplying. South Korea s divorce rate has doubled, fertility rates have fallen to the fourth lowest among advanced economies, and the suicide rate is the highest in the OECD.

What is most notable is the high response rate from the Arab region. At 86 per cent, this is the highest rate of response from that region in the history of these surveys.7

Second, the rate of increase is double for women compared to that of men.

As the final rate of participation was about 76 per cent (implying that about 62 billion was tendered for exchanges), the second scenario was retained.23 The haircut on discounted bonds was equivalent to 66.3 per cent, which was the highest ever reached in recent times.

Thus, Singapore had by far the highest rate of executions (6.9 per million per annum) followed by Saudi Arabia (3.7) and Jordan (2.1).

Asia is now the continent with the largest Internet population, followed by Europe, while Africa experienced the highest growth rate between 2003 and 2004.

The central region has the highest rates of poverty (41 per cent) and extreme poverty (57.1 per cent). That region's rate of extreme poverty is the worst in Nicaragua, at 17 times the rate in Managua and three times the rate in the other Pacific departments.

Although the under five mortality rate has admittedly fallen from 248 to 180 per 1,000 live births, the Central African Republic still has the highest rate of maternal death during childbirth (1,100 women per 100,000 live births).

This strategy has contributed to British Columbia having the second lowest smoking rate in North America.

7. Decides that the least developed countries should be placed in a separate level and receive the highest rate of discount available under the scale

Irrespective of the means of delivery of the sub munitions, States parties should be striving for the highest possible function rate for the sub munitions.

Of the 32 demersal, pelagic and shellfish fisheries studied, the Central Pacific swordfish tuna longline fishery had the fourth highest fuel use intensity (liters of fuel per ton of catch), and the tuna billfish longline fishery had the highest exceeding even that of shrimp trawling, the second highest.

Excessive state spending, heavy regulation, and dangerously high taxes have helped create the state s economic woes. The top personal income tax rate (also levied on capital gains), the sales tax rate, the corporate tax rate, and the gas tax are all at or near the highest of any state.

The second adverse effect of deflation is to raise the real interest rate, that is, the difference between the nominal interest rate and the rate of inflation. When prices are rising, the real interest rate is less than the nominal rate since the borrower repays with dollars that are worth less.

Somalia has the sixth highest infant mortality rate in the world and enrolment for school age children is just 22 per cent, according to UNICEF representatives.

But it is more prevalent in developing countries than in the developed world. The major exception is the US, where the ready availability of firearms contributes to one of the highest homicide rates and the highest gun homicide rate among developed countries.

Data collected in 2003 showed that the Northern Territory had the highest recorded rate of sexual assault of any jurisdiction in Australia, with 153 victims of sexual assault per 100,000 population, compared with a national rate of 92 per 100,000.