The government says the United States economy shrank at an annual rate of one percent in April,May and June.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

The report said the rate of pneumonia in adults after surgery decreased more than eleven and a half percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

He says the biggest challenge is jobs the disabled have the lowest employment rate of any minority group in the country.

VOA: special.2009.08.15

For example, the rate of breast cancer in Japan, Singapore and Korea is now 3 times what it was 40 years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

The researchers said tPA improved the chances of a successful result by thirty-one percent and produced no change in the death rate.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

In fact,Mississippi has had the highest rate of obese adults in each of the past five years.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

The rate is as high as eighty percent among women in the territory of American Samoa.

VOA: special.2010.08.23

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

"Certainly the good news is that the rate of deaths of children under five years of age continued to decline in two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

The growth rate in the first three months of this year was nearly twelve percent.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

However,Mister Rojas said the rate of deforestation is still very high in many areas.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Its jobless rate was almost thirteen percent in March,the highest of any state.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

In five of them, the rate at which fish are being taken out of the sea has dropped to a level that should let the populations recover.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Mississippi had the highest rate of adult obesity in the new study.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

That was compared to an approval rate of fifty-five percent in May.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

Soon,the rate of minor crimes in New York began to drop.

VOA: special.2009.03.03