Its overall score is 52, which is 7.7 points less than the world average.
It is also much lower than the world average of 13 times forecast earnings.
North America's accident rate, 3.3 per million departures, was below the world average in 2010.
The world average for glacier melt is 1.2 meters per year, but in Greenland it's much faster.
And for at least the next four years, Asia Pacific economies will grow faster than the world average.
France continued to be influenced by products in transit and therefore recorded growth higher than the world average.
An estimated 15 percent of US internet users frequently share content online, while the world average is 24 percent.
More than a third of people in the Middle East now use the internet, slightly above the world average.
That is slightly higher than the world average, but lower than in the United States and much of western Europe.
That put us behind the world average, Spain, The Netherlands, Austria, the UK, Israel, Germany, Portugal, France, Ireland, Belgium, and Japan.
According to a media report, nearly 400 people died in air accidents in Africa last year, which has a crash rate six times the world average.
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Over the past 30 years, China has maintained an average annual growth rate of 9.8 percent -- triple the world average, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
Its overall score of 57.7 is below the world average.
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Mr Annan said there had been 30 years of silent hunger in Africa, where farmers exported food in the late 1960s but now only produced a quarter of the world average per acre.
This means that almost every country as far from the equator as Japan is near or above the world average GDP per capita, and almost every country closer to the equator than Japan is near or below the world average.
Japanese bank holdings of JGBs now account for 25% of bank assets, five times the developed world average.
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The RS versus the MSCI World Average broke its downtrend in February and now shows a solid uptrend, line c.
China's water supply relative to its 1.3 billion-person population is roughly a fourth the world's average, and the shortage is worse in the north.
Already mobile devices account for more than a quarter (27 percent) of media time around the world, and the average mobile Web user consumes 7.2 hours of media daily.
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Thanks to the simultaneous growth in the total world population, the average population of a country has not declined greatly: it is down from around 32m in 1946 to 29m today.
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The world pumps on average 2.4 million pounds of carbon dioxide into the air every second for a total of 38.2 billion tons in 2011, according international calculations published in a scientific journal in December.
U.S.-based multinationals face a 35 percent statutory rate, the highest in the world when combined with the average state corporate tax.
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Over the past decade GDP has grown by 10.6% a year, according to the World Bank, double the average in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa.
But hardly anyone lives in the statistically average world of 2% anymore.
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At a growth rate of about 7.5% a year for the past 20 years, Hong Kong's economy has been ballooning twice as fast as the world's average.
As such, the Brazilian economy is heavily driven by the informal sector which accounts for 40% of GNP versus 9% in the US (world average is 33%).
In 2011, 28 people were killed on the road for every 100, 000 people in the country, government statistics show, above the world-wide average of around 20 deaths for every 100, 000 people.
One final point to make about European wages, and it's one of the most aggravating for workers: Western European incomes are the most heavily taxed in the world, with the state, on average, taking 27.6% of people's salaries (although this is not far off the 26.2% tax burden on North American incomes).
Nor, despite the increase in average lifespan in the rich world over the past few centuries, is post-reproductive survival a modern phenomenon.
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