My grades are above average.

He is above average height.

This is despite the fact Malaysia is an upper middle income economy with aspirations to become a high income economy by 2020.

The poverty line in the UK is commonly defined as being 60 of the median household income.

My work at school was well above average.

Today, China has become an upper middle income country, and it is on track to become a high income country by 2020.

Even if the child earns 30 less than the median at that time, her income would still be higher than today s median income.

But do cold statistics about average income really tell us anything significant?

Compared to the past, the current order performed well above average.

Although non tax revenue may contribute significantly to some countries total GDP, the average tax GDP ratios in low income and lower middle income countries are roughly 15 and 19 , respectively significantly lower than the OECD average of more than 35 . To finance development projects, poor and lower middle income countries must devise and implement tax strategies to increase domestic revenue.

To finance development projects, poor and lower middle income countries must devise and implement tax strategies to increase domestic revenue.

In 2003, general government expenditure amounted to 48.5 of GDP, above the eurozone average.

It says that, if your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher.

Demographics Helsinki has a higher proportion of women (53.4 ) than elsewhere in Finland (51.1 ).

To empower the domestic market to drive income growth, and to accelerate the growth of the middle class, these numbers need to shift.

Indeed, by the early 2000s, more than four fifths of an average North Korean s household income comprised unofficial earnings from market activities.

The study found that GDP per capita in the corridor was 10 above average U.S. metropolitan areas and 40 above other Canadian cities at that time.

Hence, an important task of the political process is to select those with above average morality and ability.

Innocent XIII was above the middle height and strongly built, with light eyes and a large nose.

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.

Prominent academics warn that China could fall victim to the dreaded middle income trap, which has derailed many a developing nation.

In the social democracies, less than 10 of children grow up in relative poverty (meaning households with less than half of the country s median income).

More money aimed at helping poor countries become middle income countries and at middle income countries to help them provide transport, energy, and communication for their people is a good thing.

With livelihood insurance, a private insurer would pay a stream of income to a policyholder if an index of average income in the insured person s occupation and region declines substantially.

A combined wealth decline of around 25 trillion would be roughly 60 of one year s global income. The decline in US wealth as a share of the US economy is even larger, around 100 of annual income, and perhaps 70 of annual income in Europe and Asia.

The decline in US wealth as a share of the US economy is even larger, around 100 of annual income, and perhaps 70 of annual income in Europe and Asia.

Unsurprisingly, consumer spending rose by 6 year on year in the second quarter of this year, while the household savings rate is set to fall to 14 this year, from 17 in 2002. Sarkozy is also planning to cut corporate taxation, which, at 35.4 , remains 20 higher than the European average.

Sarkozy is also planning to cut corporate taxation, which, at 35.4 , remains 20 higher than the European average.

This is still significantly above the world average, and more than 50 times that of the poorest nations in which people will die from global warming.

They are almost uniformly white, largely middle aged and above, and for the most part far from wealthy.

London s reputational factors are firmly above average and have not seen much change over the past five editions.

Our long term climate forecast is indicating high chances for above average temperatures for the eastern U.S. through the first half of October.

The trend of overweight children is happening far more in cities, and mostly among the middle and upper classes

As a result, Turkey is projected to graduate from middle income status and enter to the league of rich countries by 2012.

In the US, the poorest 20 of households receive just 5 of total income, putting their income at around one fourth of the national average.

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They are of average height.

He is of average height.

Tom is average height.

The ratio of debt to GDP (110 ) is almost twice the European average and growing.

Unemployment stands at about 12 , and is probably twice as high among young people.

New York City could reach 80 degrees on Tuesday, which would be approximately 10 degrees above average.

A woman could have genes that would tend to make her taller than average but end up shorter than average if she had been poorly nourished as a child.

A woman could have genes that would tend to make her taller than average but end up shorter than average if she had been poorly nourished as a child. 160

India has multiplied its per capita income levels many times over since 1950, and has done so far faster in recent years than Britain or the United States did during and after the industrial revolution.