About 75, 000 people sought asylum in the UK in the 12 months to the end of February, according to the latest statistics.
Suicide is among the leading causes of death in people aged 15 to 24 in scores of countries, and in many the suicide rate for young people has risen in the past decade according to statistics collected by the World Health Organisation.
The bad weather does not bode well for Chinese inflation, as important agricultural products like cabbage and rape leaf prices have risen 16.1% and 18.2%, respectively, in the May 21 to May 30 period because of the drought, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Yet this year, information-related employment finally appears to be on the upswing, according to statistics compiled for Forbes by Pepperdine University economist Michael Shires.
About 1.2% of cases in the US are "multidrug-resistant", and can withstand antibiotics commonly used to treat the illness, according to CDC statistics.
The country's gross domestic product fell by 0.5% compared with the previous quarter, according to the National Statistics Institute.
Her story is a familiar one in a country where 81% of Filipinos are devout Roman Catholic and 30% live below the poverty line, according to the Philippine National Statistics Office.
It is the sixth consecutive annual rise, according to the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.
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Scotland's exports grew slightly last summer following a strong performance from the food and drink sector, according to the latest official statistics.
In 2007, the unemployment rate for veterans between 18 to 24 who served in Iraq or Afghanistan was considerably higher than the rate for nonveterans, according to new statistics by the Labor Department.
Compared to the U.S., breast cancer mortality is 9% higher in Canada (according to the government statistics of each country), 52% higher in Germany and 88% higher in the United Kingdom (according to studies published in Lancet Oncology).
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BlackBerry phones currently has just 1.1% of the U.S. smartphone market, according to the latest statistics from Kantar Worldpanel, while the iPhone has grown to 51% and Android, 44%.
These professionals use mathematics, statistics, and financial theory to assess the risk that an event will occur and to help businesses and clients develop policies that minimize the cost of that risk, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics website.
In December 2010, the Big Freeze caused a contraction of the economy, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The unemployment level in the Isle of Man currently stands at 2.6%, compared with 7.7% in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Most of the increase, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, can be attributed to a jump in prices excluding food and energy prices, despite seeing gains in both of those categories.
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Consider that in 2012 some 532 people were murdered in the city of Chicago, according to statistics compiled by the website Crime in Chicago ( log on here for their names and stories).
Power prices in New York City are already nearly two-thirds higher than the average price paid by consumers in other U.S. cities during any given month of the year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Buddhism is the country's major religion, although according to the Thailand National Statistics Office there are also minority Christian and Islamic communities.
According to the Central Statistics Bureau, private consumption accounts for close to three-quarters of GDP, up from two-thirds in 1997.
Interestingly for the European market, Linux is the No. 1 operating system used for Web sites, according to the statistics he cited.
Retail sales across the eurozone have fallen for the second month in a row in March, according to the European Union statistics agency Eurostat.
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All fall within the bottom 16 states in terms of per capita income, according to the latest statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau.
In July last year, the number of UK households accessing the net via broadband surpassed those using dial-up for the first time, according to the Office of National Statistics.
Some 10% of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans were unemployed in October, compared with 6.3% of all veterans and 7.9% of the overall workforce, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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By comparison, the average Swiss worker earned 69, 400 francs in 2010, according to the Federal Statistics Office.
The unemployment rate in Spain has climbed to 26 percent, according to the latest government statistics.
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European exports to non-EU countries rose 12.7% in 2011, with exports to China seeing the biggest increase, up 49%, according to Eurostat, the statistics division for the European Union.
The region now makes up around 58% of the global market for gold, according to statistics gathered by the World Gold Council, compared with 35% in 1970, while the combined demand from Europe and North America has fallen from 47% to 27% in the same period.
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