Sentence examples for below the international average from inspiring English sources

While India's rates are below the international average of 16 per 100,000 people, they have been on a steady upward march.

But the results from 1999 showed that by the eighth grade, American students fell below the international average in science, with students in Australia, the Czech Republic, Britain, Slovenia, Canada and Hungary and five other nations doing better.

In the Lords, the education minister Lord Nash said food bank use in the UK was below the international average despite a new inquiry showing rising levels of use.

At 10, it is easily the lowest in the EU (excluding other UK jurisdictions); it's well below the international average and a clear breach of international children's rights standards.

The new results are from tests of nine-year-olds in 26 countries, and show that in maths, Scotland and England came 16th and 17th respectively, well below the international average (Wales and Ulster did not take part).

Since the late 1980s, top corporate tax rates around the world have dropped so far that America's, which was once below the international average, is now well above (see chart).As this has happened, American-based multinational companies have shifted more activity offshore; their foreign employment has steadily risen over the past decade as domestic employment has declined.

This means that the coverages of the Japanese primary science curriculum on these two topics are below the international averages, after controlling for the effect of the curriculum coverage of life science in each grade.

For example, since its inception in 2000, the Programme for International Student Assessment has rated the mathematical ability of Japanese students (aged 15 to 16 years) as higher than the international average, whereas that in the United States has been below average.

However, the international average for the correct response was 60%, so that Slovenian children were well below average.

Another survey shows only 11percentt of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Pakistan report having access to finance, below the 15percentt international average and well below percentages reported in higher performing middle-income countries like Brazil and Turkey (30 and 48percentt respectively).

Such performance was below international average among 65 participating countries and resulted in the ranking of the USA to fall from 24th to 29th in mathematics.