The completion rate is lower than for almost any other wealthy country, and worst for poor and minority students.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

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 center says September Arctic sea ice is decreasing at a rate of more than eleven percent every ten years.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

As a result,the report says, the rate of plant and animal species disappearing is continuing faster than ever before.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

One of the U.N.Millennium Development Goals is to reduce the under-five death rate by two-thirds by two thousand fifteen.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

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

The ILO notes that child labor is decreasing worldwide, but at a much slower rate than four years ago.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

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 group says the cremation rate is expected to increase to almost fifty-nine percent by two thousand twenty-five.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Swaziland is said to have the highest known rate of infection for the virus that causes the disease.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

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

VOA: special.2010.08.23

Richard Fry says their job-holding rate is almost at the lowest point in nearly fifty years.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

"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

In America,the traditional way to finance a home purchase is with a thirty-year, fixed-rate mortgage loan.

VOA: special.2011.01.24