Sentences with phrase «among wealthy nations»

The UK has one of the highest stillbirth rates among wealthy nations, with one in 260 of all pregnancies resulting in stillbirth.

Among wealthy nations, income gaps in Internet and device access is shrinking, but a new type of digital divide is emerging.

So far, Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama and his team have focused on containing greenhouse gases rather than on reparations, a provocative issue that raises objections among wealthier nations.

I'm afraid I'll sound condescending here, but if you don't at least follow the news, you probably are going to find Syriana to be a tedious watch, and that's a shame in itself, as ignorance to world events is what greases the wheels of the grand machine that keeps corporations fat and happy, politicians in their pockets, foreign regimes in a constant state of perpetual flux, and the standard of living for millions of people near destitute in what should be the among the wealthiest nations on the face of the Earth.

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Indeed, a recent study shows that between 1989 and 2013, municipal bond ownership has increasingly concentrated among the nation's wealthiest households.

New Jersey is among the nation's wealthiest states with a growing millionaire population.

The number of people in Bangladesh dying from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension — long considered diseases of the wealthy because the poor didn't tend to live long enough to develop them — increased dramatically among the nation's poorest households over a 24 - year period, suggests new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

While Connecticut ranks as among the wealthiest states in the nation, Connecticut's failed school funding system leaves many communities without the financial resources they need to ensure that all of the state's children have access to high quality educational opportunities.

Residents that live in wealthy school districts have among the best schools in the nation based on graduation rates, test scores and independent ratings of academic success.

Providing audiences with abstract but scary information requiring sacrifice has produced apathy and denial among citizens of wealthy nations, the author says.

The cities most at risk in richer nations include Miami, Boston and Nagoya, while cities in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Ivory Coast are among those most in danger in less wealthy countries.

The median household income in Maryland is ranked first in the nation at nearly $ 70,000 dollars, making the state's workers among the wealthiest in the country.

However there exists within this wealthy nation another nation whose people are among the poorest and most materially deprived in the world.

Though the U.S. is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, and Virginia is one of its most prosperous states, both have among the highest rates of premature and low birth - weight births in the developed world.