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.
Japanese bank holdings of JGBs now account for 25% of bank assets, five times the developed world average.
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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.
The RS versus the MSCI World Average broke its downtrend in February and now shows a solid uptrend, line c.
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.
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%).
Its overall score of 57.7 is below the world average.
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The National Center for Education Statistics constructed a "world average" of 18 countries that are members of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and that participated in the IEA reading study.
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.
Israeli Jewish women have the highest fertility rate in the Western world with an average of three children per woman.
It would hold tax receipts to their post-World War II average of between 18% to 19% as a share of the economy.
But hardly anyone lives in the statistically average world of 2% anymore.
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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.
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.
But Bush held office for eight years, and economic growth over that time averaged only 2%, a point and a half lower than the post-World War II average.
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.
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.
It has returned 9.0% a year on average over the past decade, versus an average for world stock funds of 5.2%.
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