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

VOA: special.2010.04.21

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

To ease credit, the Bank of England last week reduced its main interest rate to 1.5% - its lowest ever.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

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

At that rate,officials estimate that more than one hundred thousand people will be able to climb to the top each year.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

One chief said the suicide rate for young Native American men in his state was twelve times the national average.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

Wish them luck. Americans age twenty to twenty-four faced an unemployment rate in May of fourteen and seven-tenths percent.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

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

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

VOA: special.2010.05.17

The other would measure the rate at which all students repay their loans, whether they complete the program or not.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

If a heart beats too slowly, the device will use electrical signals to help set a normal rate.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

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

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

VOA: special.2009.05.04