Across OECD countries, one in two adults is currently overweight and one in six is obese.
Brazil already spends a higher share of GDP on schooling than most OECD countries.
In the OECD countries men on average now live to 76 and women to 82.
Unemployment rates among university graduates stood at 4.4% on average across OECD countries in 2009.
An alternative is a value-added tax, which all other OECD countries have (see article).
In the highest-achieving OECD countries, just 7% of pupils fail to grasp the basics.
This makes the US Federal taxation system considerably more progressive than those of most other OECD countries.
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In 1950 the OECD countries had seven people aged 20-64 for every one of 65 and over.
In total, the OECD countries will have GDP growth of 1.2% in 2013 rising to 2.3% in 2014.
These are vastly under-appreciated reasons why American students score last in math and science performance amongst OECD countries.
Almost all of the increase in fossil-energy production will occur in non-OECD countries.
The EIA estimates growth to be relatively flat for OECD countries, which are generally the more advanced energy consumers.
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"With a lower total pension provision than many other OECD countries, a pensions gap has been created, " the ONS said.
It also goes beyond the historical scope of IAE, the OECD countries (much of Europe, North America, Japan, and Korea).
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The death rate after haemorrhagic strokes was 25.5% in American hospitals but only 19.8% in OECD countries as a group.
As a group, OECD countries in 2007 spent 0.6% of GDP on services to get the jobless back into work.
Between 1980 and 2000 the amount of waste produced by the OECD countries increased by an average of 2.5% a year.
Some 72% of Internet users still live in the high-income OECD countries which make up only 14% of the world's population.
Relative to income, they have risen by 5% since 2000, compared with jumps of more than 25% in some other OECD countries.
Today, the rate that OECD countries spend per poor person in their own country, compared to other poor countries, stands at 30, 000-to-1.
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"It's easy for us to lose sight here in Australia of how difficult economic conditions have been in other OECD countries, " he said.
While demand growth in OECD countries is underwhelming, consumption rates have recovered from recession lows at a much faster rate than many expected.
By the age of 15, 38% of pupils have done so at least once, compared with an average in OECD countries of 13%.
Note what is being said here: that the US tax system is more progressive than the tax systems of most other OECD countries.
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Of the ten largest fiscal retrenchments carried out by OECD countries since the 1970s, seven were pushed through by coalition or minority governments.
The chart shows employment levels in the mostly rich OECD countries among the oldest section of the workforce (55-64) and the youngest (15-24).
Yet he has balked at the idea of cutting physician salaries, even though American physicians make twice as much as doctors in OECD countries.
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South Korea has a problem: It has the highest suicide rate among the OECD countries, and one bridge is responsible for many suicide attempts.
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In 2005 the level was around 9 percent, compared with 6 percent in the U.S. and an average of 7.2 percent in all OECD countries.
Because people with jobs are way overworked in the US, where people work more hours per year than most if not all other OECD countries.
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