This amounted to a 6.6% proportionate annual rate of poverty reduction-the difference between the growth rates of the number of poor and the total population.

这相当于年减贫率为6.6%——总人口增长率与贫困人口增长率之差。

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Perhaps that once was true, but today elderly Americans as a group have a lower poverty rate than the rest of the population.

也许这曾经是对的，但是今天美国老年群体的贫困率比其他人群要低。

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Turkey has been effective in its poverty reduction efforts, with the poverty rate of 27% in 2002 dropping to just under 18% in 2006.

土耳其有效地减轻了贫困，使贫困率从2002年的27%降低到2006年的18%以下。

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But senior government researcher Aya Abe says Japan has the fourth-highest rate of poverty among developed countries.

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The results also show that 17% of families in the city were living below the poverty level, 7 points higher than the national rate.

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widespread poverty and an unemployment rate of just over 24 percent.

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Mr. Thein Sein said that challenges remain, such as the high rate of poverty in his country.

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The rate of poverty in the Sahara region has been reduced from 29.4% in 1975 to 6.2%.

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As you can see there have been precipitous declines in the rate of poverty everywhere except sub-Saharan Africa.

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