Nor can it be straightforwardly compared with other countries' figures, which are based on different definitions.
Compared with other countries wracked by the economic crisis, Thailand has made good progress lifting itself off the bottom.
The islands enjoy a high per capita income and a well-developed infrastructure as compared with other countries in the region.
But the UK still measures up poorly compared with other countries - it ranked 12 out of the 19 countries in the Lancet study.
Compared with other countries, this burden does not appear crushing.
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Certainly, there is little evidence that Britain's obsession with performance assessment, which pre-dated the Labour government of the past eight years, has done much for its public services compared with other countries.
Recognizing that they are behind the curve compared with other countries with developed privacy law regimes, Chinese authorities have now circulated for public comment draft guidelines governing transmission and storage of personal data on computer systems.
Especially since cancer treatment is one of the places where the U.S. shines compared with other developed countries.
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On balance that is right: Germany comes out well on railway liberalisation when compared with other European countries.
The trouble is that living standards are already dropping compared with other rich countries, so Japan feels poorer.
Corporation tax in Britain now looks particularly onerous compared with some other countries.
The French mobile phone market is seen as particularly attractive because it is relatively under-saturated compared with other European countries.
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The Ufi was established in 1998 to address the concern that over seven million people in the UK have a significant skills deficiency when compared with other European countries.
In a recent study economists at the OECD found that America does indeed do well on some measures, such as breast-cancer survival rates and cervical-cancer screening, compared with other rich countries.
Britain did particularly well compared with other European countries.
Germany is not heavily taxed compared with other European countries (see chart), but it takes a bigger bite out of pay than most, a burden borne disproportionately by those on modest salaries.
Yet apart from Japan, official aid levels to Myanmar are pitiful compared even with other poor countries.
Compared with most other advanced countries, British workers are poorly educated.
The manufacturing sector has been a key beneficiary of the Federal Reserve rate cuts, which reduce borrowing costs for companies and also depressed the dollar, which lowers costs for American factories, compared with those in other countries.
The results confirm those of previous studies that found higher rates of asthma among American children compared with kids from other countries, and investigators have also reported similar differences in allergic diseases between immigrants and native-born citizens in Italy, Israel and Australia.
Earl Attlee said a recent survey by Passenger Focus had reviewed UK rail fares and, although the "overall picture was mixed", the country compared favourably with other European countries "in respect of many ticket types, particularly on longer distance tickets purchased in advance".
Japan was late in developing its economic system compared with other Asian and Islamic countries.
The report also showed high commuting flows for British workers compared with those in other rich countries.
Maintaining the strength of France's banking sector as compared with those of other European countries has been a continual theme during the battle.
As to actual powers, these are few: compared with finance ministers in other countries, the treasury secretary of the United States is a nonentity.
Instead of the endless internal ruminations about whether improving results are a sign of slipping standards - the more relevant question might be how well today's pupils are performing compared with their peers in other countries.
Its subsidy regime, under which green power stations generate tradable certificates, is unwieldy compared with traditional cash handouts in other countries.
Like most MEPs, he is frustrated by the lack of coverage in the British media, compared with France, Germany and other countries.
The Pentagon has provided nearly all the security forces (some 150, 000 troops, compared with just 21, 000 from other countries).
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