This has been the pattern in most developed countries.

High fertility levels characterize the majority of the least developed countries.

The TFR for most developed countries now stands well below replacement levels.

Taxation remains the dominant source of government revenue in most developed countries.

The unemployment rate will peak above 10 in most other advanced economies, too.

11. In most developed countries, the national reports were prepared by a heterogenous group of institutions.

In a majority of developed countries, maternal mortality rates are below 10 deaths per 100,000 live births.

In general, near zero policy rates should be maintained in most advanced economies to support the economic recovery.

Estimated prevalence of HIV AIDS in least developed countries in 2003 was 3.2 per cent, but in most African least developed countries it was above that level.

While much lower than previously, it is higher than in most industrialized nations.

Yet it could contribute significantly to mitigating the problem of population ageing in much of the developed world.

In most countries, especially developed countries, the numbers of elderly people were increasing rapidly owing to falling mortality and improved health care.

In most of the least developed countries, with the exception of Bangladesh (5 per cent), the penetration rates hardly exceed 1 per cent.

Increasingly tight regulation on immigration in most industrialized countries is, however, slowing this trend.

150. Most industrialized countries have less than 20 per cent of their populations below the age of 15.

The existence of bogus asylum seekers, however, had been the result of strict visa regimes for migrant workers in the majority of developed countries.

In most of the least developed small island developing countries for which data are available, this proportion is over 10 per cent.

237. Since the mid 1970s, most industrialized countries experienced sub replacement fertility levels.

English is taught in most countries.

It's prohibited in most countries.

In most developed countries, cities are heavily dependent upon refrigeration in supermarkets, in order to obtain their food for daily consumption.

Levels of extreme poverty in most of the least developed countries are high over 20 per cent of their overall population live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than US 1 per day, and in 10 of them that proportion is higher than 40 per cent.

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Meanwhile, unsustainable budget deficits and public debt in most advanced economies have severely limited the scope for further fiscal stimulus.

Indeed, economies and markets no longer face liquidity problems, but rather credit and insolvency crises. Meanwhile, unsustainable budget deficits and public debt in most advanced economies have severely limited the scope for further fiscal stimulus.

Birth rates have been low in developed countries for some time, but now they are falling rapidly in the majority of developing countries.

English is taught in most countries.

12. Despite that ongoing recession in most of the developed countries, growth in the developing world had continued in 1992 and remained strong in 1993.

In most African economies, the modern services sector has yet to become a driving force of economic growth, competitiveness and development, as in other developing and developed countries.

In the EECCA countries, on the other hand, the levels of road freight in 2004 were lower with the exceptions of Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan

39. Weak commodity prices were generally the result of excess supplies and weak demand in many industrial country markets.

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The same was true in country after country.

Women live longer than men in most countries.

Slavery has been abolished in most parts of the world.

Most countries of the world have religious minorities.

ESAB sells its products in most countries of the world.

Sawnwood exports from selected European countries to the United States, 1999 2004

Newspapers in most advanced countries are struggling or folding, and investigative reporting is often the first thing they cut.

In most developed countries, the traditional nuclear family is in severe decline and is being replaced by single individual households.