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

VOA: special.2010.07.29

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

VOA: special.2010.04.06

But world trade is expected to fall at the fastest rate in eighty years.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Mister Rehm said the high death rate is even more surprising because the large majority of adults around the world do not drink alcohol at all.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

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

"Already it (world output) has been contracting at the fastest rate since World War II.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

"But what it means is, if the world is going to grow at the rate it can in the future, the rest of the world is going to have to shift to more domestic sources of growth, investment,and spending,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.12