Germany is a middling performer among rich countries in international tests for maths and reading.
在数学和阅读的国际测试中，德国在富有国家里表现平庸。
Japan's economy is expected to contract by 6% this year, making it the worst-hit among rich countries.
日本今年预期经济收缩将达6%，这在发达国家算是重灾区。
Japan stands virtually alone among rich countries in not using daylight-saving time (DST), or summer time.
而在所有发达国家当中，日本几乎是唯一一个不使用日照利用时间(DAT)，或曰夏令时的国家。
As a result Japan has the lowest rate of start-ups among rich countries: one-third of America's rate and half of Europe's.
这样的结果就是，日本的创业率是所有发达国家中最低的：只相当于美国的三分之一和欧洲的一半。
Among rich countries Australia stands out as a place whose geography and geology pull its energy planners in different directions.
在富裕国家当中，澳大利亚的地理和地质条件将该国能源规划者引向不同方向。
And despite years of mandatory English-language classes in secondary school, the Japanese score lowest among rich countries on English tests.
尽管中学阶段英语是必修课，但一拿英文测试和其他发达国家一比，最差劲的莫过于自己了。
This toxic mix of falling GDP, high inflation and a big budget deficit is rare among rich countries but not unique; Greece suffers from it, too.
这种GDP减少，通胀上升，以及预算赤字庞大的混合状况在发达世界并不多见，但绝不是绝无仅有；希腊的境遇同样如此。
She would like to reduce the corporate tax rate to 9%, to make it the lowest among rich countries, and do away with capital-gains and inheritance taxes altogether.
米歇尔想将公司营业税降到9%，创造富国中的最低记录，她还想一举废除资本收益税及遗产税。
Among rich countries, those that are more unequal appear to have more mental illness, infant mortality, obesity, high school dropouts, teenage births, homicides, and so on.
那些富裕并有着更多不平等现象的国家面对着更多的精神疾病，婴儿死亡，肥胖，高中辍学，青少年生育，杀人等问题。
The report notes increasingly close ties between the price of oil and the growth outcomes among the oil-rich, labor importing countries, a fact that was not always the case in prior oil booms.
这份报告注意到，石油价格与石油富裕国和劳动力进口国的增长业绩之间的联系越来越紧密，而石油繁荣之前的情况并不总是这样。
Among the 40 Contracting Parties to the Convention there are rich and poor countries from all regions of the world.
公约的40个缔约方中有来自世界各区域的富裕和贫穷的国家。
Among the OECD club of 30 mainly rich countries, only three-iceland, Norway and america-now have retirement ages higher than 65.
在由30个主要是富裕国家组成的经济合作组织中，只有三个国家——冰岛，挪威，美国——目前将退休年龄设立在65岁之上。
Once one of the most egalitarian of countries, Japan is now above average among rich nations in its income inequality—and, at 14%, has the highest rate of children raised in poverty.
曾为最平等的国家之一的日本，现在的贫富差距居于发达国家的前列-并且有着14%的孩子在贫困家庭，位列第一。
With the largest amount of debt relative to the size of its economy among the rich countries, and a stubborn deflation problem to boot, Japan has an economic time-bomb ticking beneath it.
相对于经济总量来看，日本的债务规模是发达国家中最大的。另外，它还面临着顽固的通缩难题。
Rich countries are, by and large, happier than poor ones; but among developed-world countries, there is only a weak correlation between happiness and GDP.
总的来说，富国比穷国幸福；但是发达国家，幸福和GDP之间只有微弱的相关性。
Among the key findings are that consumers in rich countries waste almost as much food, 222 million tonnes, as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa.
其中主要的发现是：发达国家的消费者浪费的食物，有将近2.22亿吨，相当于撒哈拉以南地区食品的净生产量。
As part of the research for the book, BCG asked 12, 000 women in 22 countries a battery of 120 questions. And among the rich findings...
作为本书调查的一部分，BCG询问了来自22个国家的12,000位妇女连续120个问题。
But as a whole, rich countries aren't much happier than poor ones, at least among countries with enough income to meet basic needs.
但是总体上，富国并不比穷国幸福，至少对那些拥有足够收入能够满足基本需求的国家来说，的确如此。
But as a whole, rich countries aren t much happier than poor ones, at least among countries with enough income to meet basic needs.
但是总体上，富国并不比穷国幸福，至少对那些拥有足够收入能够满足基本需求的国家来说，的确如此。
Greece has one of the most generous, and therefore expensive, state pension systems among the 30 mostly rich OECD countries.
经合组织的30个成员国大多是富裕国家，其中希腊的养老金制度属最优厚之列，因而也是耗资最多的国家之一。
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was among the first rich-world central banks to start raising interest rates after virtually all countries had slashed them during the crisis.
澳大利亚储备银行是发达国家中最先从危机期间席卷全球的降息潮中走出并开始升息的国家。
The OECD ranks Britain 17th among 57 countries in literacy, 24th in mathematics (below the average) and 14th in science-a poor showing for a rich country with a fine intellectual tradition.
在57个国家中，英国公民的识字水平被OECD排到第17位，数学水平排到24为(低于平均水平)，科学水平排第14位——对一个有良好教育传统的富裕国家来说是很差的水平。
At present, debts have been one of the most important sources of income of a nation and this is becoming more and more universal among countries, poor or rich.
现在，借债已成为国家获取收入的一个重要来源，并且成为一个越来越普遍的现象，不管是贫穷国家还是富裕国家都是如此。
Using polling data from both rich and poor countries, the researchers found personal satisfaction to be highest among people living in the richest countries.
研究者发现，通过对比从富国和穷国得来的数据，生活在最富的国家的人们也是最有满足感的。
Using polling data from both rich and poor countries, the researchers found personal satisfaction to be highest among people living in the richest countries.
研究者发现，通过对比从富国和穷国得来的数据，生活在最富的国家的人们也是最有满足感的。
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