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

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

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

VOA: special.2009.10.27

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

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

VOA: special.2009.07.21

The women who smoked had an eleven percent higher rate of AMD than the other women.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

"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

President Obama wants the United States to have the world's highest rate of college graduates.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

African American children die from the disease at five times the rate of white children.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

He said for the first time, the rate of deforestation has decreased around the world.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Push hard and fast. Aim for a rate of about one hundred compressions each minute.

VOA: special.2009.06.09