1.   A dramatically lower savings rate, low growth rates in investment and labor productivity, and stagnating wages are a direct result.

2.   A five-year survival rate in lung cancer is still less than ten percent.

3.   Blood alcohol levels rise at pretty much the same rate in infrequent and habitual drinkers.

4.   Blot said the upgrade has sliced Harrier accident rates in half.

5.   Crime rates in Manchester bucked the national trend.

6.   Divorce rates in Scotland are following the general trend.

7.   Drop-out rates in rural areas are high, due to poverty and war.

8.   Female-headed families also have an exceptionally high poverty rate in New York.

9.   Finally governments have also to bear in mind taxation rates in other countries when framing their own policies.