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The phrase "average for developed countries" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing statistical data or comparisons related to economic, social, or environmental metrics among developed nations.
Example: "The average for developed countries in terms of GDP growth has shown a steady increase over the past decade."
Alternatives: "mean for advanced economies" or "typical for industrialized nations".
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The death rate is double the average for developed countries.
Pew Research Center, using 2014 data, found that the tax bill for Americans, under various scenarios, is below average for developed countries.
The Pew Research Center, using 2014 data, found that the tax bill for Americans, under various scenarios, is below average for developed countries.
Moreover, one of the world's leading experts, Uwe Reinhardt of Princeton, has found that Americans use less care than the average for developed countries when it comes to things such as seeing a doctor and spending time in the hospital.
"We are spending less money than average for developed countries, much less than the United States.
That equates to about 17 percent of its annual economic output, nearly double the average for developed countries, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, while producing some of the worst health outcomes in the industrialized world.
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Survey data from Zambia suggest there are only 0.2 ICU beds per 100 hospital beds, far below the averages for developed countries [ 58].
The average for developing countries is 5.6%.
Tendências, a consultancy, says that this may drag growth for this year as a whole below 3%—or less than half the average for developing countries.Much of the blame is heaped on the central bank, which stands accused of cutting inflation too briskly from 12.5% in 2002 to perhaps 5% this year and of treating transient price spikes as serious threats to stability.
The majority of births in Ethiopia (62%) fall into one of the high-risk categories (excluding first births), compared to the average for developing countries of 56% (2).
By contrast, egg consumption in China is very high - more than double the average for developing countries and even above the industrial country average - and will rise from 15 kg/ person/p.a. in 1997/99 to 20 kg in 2030.
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