It must also be difficult to separate the disease burden of obesity from the figures.
And as we can see from the figures presented, this solving of the great probnlem is moving steadily down the income scale.
The minister also denied youth unemployment was at its highest level "if you exclude from the figures full-time students who are looking for a part-time job".
Furthermore, semiconductor deals have been excluded from the figures.
Ask them why the numbers of Welsh speakers is down here, there, pretty much everywhere and they'll tell you it's a combination of things - over-reporting in 2001, parents not speaking it to their children, older Welsh speakers dying, fewer children being born, bright, young Welsh speakers leaving the heartlands to come to Cardiff, leaving Wales and disappearing from the figures altogether.
"From the latest figures we have, more than 200 children reportedly died from this poisoning, " said Elisabeth Byrs, the spokeswoman for the UN's Organisation for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
There were nearly 38 billion debit-card transactions in 2009, up from 25 billion in 2006, according to the latest figures from the Federal Reserve.
In contrast to the National Basketball Association, a strong European presence that counts players from 34 countries on its teams, over 80% of MLB's 241 foreign-born players hail from Latin America or Asia, including 91 from the Dominican Republic, according to figures from the league.
Demand for seafood world-wide stood at about 17.1 pounds per capita in 2008, up 36% from around 12.6 pounds in the 1980s, according to the latest figures from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization.
This gets some support, as it happens, from the new figures on international productivity levels which I cited at the start.
Yet as we can see from the consumption figures, it does seem to work as a method of achieving the desired goal.
Taking away the one-off boost from the Olympics, the figures suggest that the UK economy was broadly flat in the second half of the year.
Proof of that can come only from the trade figures, and it is true that, this year, exports have held up despite a fall in commodity prices.
The figures from the Tokyo Stock Exchange show that individuals accounted for 36% of the total value of trades in Japan's major stock markets, down from 39% the week before.
And Oliver Wyman consultants say their figures in their analyst are based on the latest ACO figures from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
If these cases are discounted from the 2000 headline figures, the actual number of applicants accepted at the first hurdle rises from 22% to 31%.
The latest figures from the PCH reveal 43 out of a capacity of 340 beds are currently unavailable.
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The latest figures from the Census Bureau show that at least a third of all Americans are not white.
According to the latest figures from the University of Michigan, consumers' long-term inflation expectations have risen to 3.4%, a 13-year high.
Parish churches in the Channel Islands have seen an increase in attendances, according to the latest figures from the Diocese of Winchester.
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According to the latest figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders, first-time buyers currently spend only 13% of their income on their mortgages.
According to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics, 7.82 million adults (16%) in the UK have never used the internet.
And the latest figures from the Principality Building Society indicated that house prices in Wales would not continue to grow at the same rate.
The latest figures from the central bank showed that there was an improvement in foreign sales, with exports up 3.4% in the first quarter.
The latest figures from the European Central Bank show that bank loans to the private sector were down by 0.2% in the year to June.
In the United States, at least 5, 469 cases of swine flu have been reported, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
When the 2011 figures from the Office of National Statistics are broken down, 29% of fathers were 30-34, 21% were aged 35-39 and 10% aged 40-44.
The latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations show The Wall Street Journal posted a 0.61 percent increase in daily circulation to 2.06 million for the six months ended March 31.
The latest figures from the Department of Health show that up to 31 December last year a total of 52 people in the UK had died from new variant CJD.
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