Dr.Mark Hamer of University College London says previous research found that smokers have a higher rate of mental illness, specifically depression.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

For example,for men in Swaziland, the difference between the best rate and the worst rate is nine times higher.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

The results also show that 17% of families in the city were living below the poverty level, 7 points higher than the national rate.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

For individuals, the poverty rate was 21%, almost 8 points higher than the rate nationally.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

That was five percentage points higher than the national rate.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

But a 2005 study by the World Health Organization also found France has a higher suicide rate than any other western nation.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

She suggests that could help explain why the United States has a higher teen pregnancy rate than any other country in the industrialized world.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

U.S.Army personnel predicted the suicide rate would be higher than the total in 2008.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Economists point out that the current jobless rate is already higher than the hypothetical rate that was used to calculate the health of banks and other financial institutions in so-called "stress tests" earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

Although the U.S.jobless rate continues to spike higher, the actual number of Americans who lost jobs during the month was the smallest since last September, the fourth consecutive month in which the pace of job losses slowed.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

America's true unemployment rate may, in fact,be higher than the number provided by the Labor Department, which does not include people who searched for work in vain and have given up, or those who settled for part-time work.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02