Country name 2007 2008 2009 2010
Afghanistan 7.3 7.0 7.6 7.6
Albania 6.9 6.7 6.9 6.5
Algeria 3.5 3.7 4.6 4.2
American Samoa
Andorra 7.6 7.5 7.5 7.5
Angola 2.5 3.2 4.9 2.9
Antigua and Barbuda 4.4 4.3 4.8 6.0
Argentina 8.4 8.4 9.5 8.1
Armenia 3.9 3.8 4.6 4.4
Aruba
Australia 8.5 8.7 8.7 8.7
Austria 10.2 10.4 11.0 11.0
Azerbaijan 5.0 4.3 5.8 5.9
Bahamas, The 8.1 8.4 8.3 7.9
Bahrain 3.6 4.2 4.7 5.0
Bangladesh 3.5 3.3 3.4 3.5
Barbados 7.0 7.1 5.9 8.0
Belarus 6.4 5.9 6.1 5.6
Belgium 9.6 10.0 10.8 10.7
Belize 4.8 4.8 5.5 5.2
Benin 4.6 4.2 4.3 4.1
Bermuda
Bhutan 5.0 5.2 5.1 5.2
Bolivia 4.7 4.9 5.1 4.8
Bosnia and Herzegovina 9.8 10.3 10.9 11.1
Botswana 7.9 7.8 10.0 8.3
Brazil 8.5 8.3 8.8 9.0
Brunei Darussalam 2.4 2.3 3.0 2.8
Bulgaria 6.8 7.0 7.2 6.9
Burkina Faso 6.3 5.9 6.6 6.7
Burundi 13.9 12.4 11.4 11.6
Cambodia 5.0 4.8 5.3 5.6
Cameroon 4.7 5.1 4.9 5.1
Canada 10.0 10.3 11.4 11.3
Cape Verde 4.6 4.4 3.9 4.1
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic 4.1 4.0 4.0 4.0
Chad 4.2 3.6 4.6 4.5
Chile 6.9 7.5 8.4 8.0
China 4.4 4.6 5.1 5.1
Colombia 7.2 6.9 7.6 7.6
Comoros 4.3 4.5 3.2 4.5
Congo, Dem. Rep. 6.2 7.3 9.6 7.9
Congo, Rep. 2.7 2.6 2.8 2.5
Costa Rica 8.4 9.4 10.5 10.9
Cote d'Ivoire 5.8 5.9 5.2 5.3
Croatia 7.5 7.8 7.8 7.8
Cuba 10.4 10.8 12.1 10.6
Curacao
Cyprus 6.1 6.0 6.1 6.0
Czech Republic 6.5 6.8 8.0 7.9
Denmark 9.9 10.2 11.5 11.4
Djibouti 7.7 7.2 7.8 7.2
Dominica 6.1 6.0 6.2 7.4
Dominican Republic 5.4 5.7 5.9 6.2
Ecuador 7.0 7.0 8.8 8.1
Egypt, Arab Rep. 4.9 4.8 4.8 4.7
El Salvador 6.3 6.2 6.8 6.9
Equatorial Guinea 1.9 2.7 4.5 4.5
Eritrea 3.2 4.3 2.8 2.7
Estonia 5.1 5.9 6.7 6.0
Ethiopia 4.8 4.3 4.4 4.9
Faeroe Islands
Fiji 4.4 4.2 5.0 4.9
Finland 8.0 8.3 9.0 9.0
France 11.1 11.2 11.9 11.9
French Polynesia
Gabon 2.9 2.6 3.6 3.5
Gambia, The 5.3 5.2 6.1 5.7
Georgia 8.2 9.0 10.2 10.1
Germany 10.5 10.7 11.7 11.6
Ghana 6.0 5.6 5.0 5.2
Greece 9.8 10.1 10.6 10.2
Greenland
Grenada 6.1 5.9 6.2 5.9
Guam
Guatemala 7.2 7.0 6.9 6.9
Guinea 5.4 5.5 5.3 4.9
Guinea-Bissau 5.7 5.7 8.6 8.5
Guyana 5.3 6.0 6.2 6.1
Haiti 5.6 5.4 6.1 6.9
Honduras 5.9 6.0 7.0 6.8
Hong Kong SAR, China
Hungary 7.6 7.3 7.6 7.3
Iceland 9.3 9.2 9.8 9.4
India 4.0 4.0 4.2 4.1
Indonesia 2.7 2.5 2.5 2.6
Iran, Islamic Rep. 5.5 5.8 5.7 5.6
Iraq 4.9 4.9 8.4 8.4
Ireland 7.6 8.8 9.4 9.2
Isle of Man
Israel 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.6
Italy 8.6 9.0 9.4 9.5
Jamaica 4.9 5.2 4.9 4.8
Japan 8.2 8.5 9.5 9.5
Jordan 8.4 8.5 9.6 8.0
Kazakhstan 3.4 3.9 4.5 4.3
Kenya 4.4 4.2 4.8 4.8
Kiribati 13.6 12.5 13.0 11.2
Korea, Dem. Rep.
Korea, Rep. 6.3 6.5 6.9 6.9
Kosovo
Kuwait 2.1 1.9 3.8 2.6
Kyrgyz Republic 6.6 5.7 6.4 6.2
Lao PDR 4.0 4.5 4.3 4.5
Latvia 7.0 6.6 6.6 6.7
Lebanon 8.4 7.7 7.4 7.0
Lesotho 8.5 8.8 9.4 11.1
Liberia 11.7 11.9 12.2 11.8
Libya 2.8 3.0 3.9 3.9
Liechtenstein
Lithuania 6.2 6.6 7.5 7.0
Luxembourg 7.1 6.8 7.9 7.8
Macao SAR, China
Macedonia, FYR 6.9 6.8 6.9 7.1
Madagascar 4.1 4.5 4.2 3.8
Malawi 7.0 6.6 6.7 6.6
Malaysia 3.8 3.8 4.6 4.4
Maldives 6.8 7.8 6.4 6.3
Mali 5.8 5.6 5.5 5.0
Malta 8.7 8.3 8.5 8.6
Marshall Islands 17.0 16.6 18.9 18.0
Mauritania 4.4 4.3 4.2 4.4
Mauritius 5.2 5.3 5.6 6.0
Mayotte
Mexico 5.8 5.9 6.5 6.3
Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 12.0 12.9 13.4 14.2
Moldova 10.9 11.4 12.5 11.7
Monaco 3.3 3.6 4.2 4.3
Mongolia 4.6 5.7 5.7 5.4
Montenegro 7.8 8.0 9.4 9.1
Morocco 5.2 5.2 5.2 5.2
Mozambique 4.8 4.1 5.4 5.2
Myanmar 2.0 2.0 2.1 2.0
Namibia 6.9 6.8 7.2 6.8
Nepal 5.2 5.6 5.5 5.5
Netherlands 9.7 9.9 12.0 11.9
New Caledonia
New Zealand 8.5 9.3 10.0 10.1
Nicaragua 9.1 9.3 9.6 9.1
Niger 5.4 5.2 5.4 5.2
Nigeria 6.0 5.7 6.1 5.1
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway 8.7 8.5 9.7 9.5
Oman 2.5 2.1 3.0 2.8
Pakistan 2.6 2.5 2.2 2.2
Palau 10.8 10.2 10.6 10.3
Panama 6.7 7.3 8.1 8.1
Papua New Guinea 3.2 3.3 3.7 3.6
Paraguay 6.1 6.0 6.6 5.9
Peru 5.1 5.7 5.3 5.1
Philippines 3.4 3.3 3.6 3.6
Poland 6.4 7.0 7.4 7.5
Portugal 10.0 10.1 10.7 11.0
Puerto Rico
Qatar 2.4 2.1 2.6 1.8
Romania 5.2 5.4 5.6 5.6
Russian Federation 5.4 4.8 5.6 5.1
Rwanda 9.5 9.4 10.1 10.5
Samoa 5.9 5.5 5.4 6.5
San Marino 7.1 7.1 7.1 7.1
Sao Tome and Principe 7.5 7.0 7.2 7.2
Saudi Arabia 3.8 3.2 4.4 4.3
Senegal 5.7 5.8 5.7 5.7
Serbia 10.4 10.4 10.5 10.4
Seychelles 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.4
Sierra Leone 12.8 13.8 13.9 13.1
Singapore 3.2 3.6 4.1 4.0
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
Slovak Republic 7.8 8.0 9.1 8.8
Slovenia 7.8 8.4 9.3 9.4
Solomon Islands 6.2 6.0 8.7 8.6
Somalia
South Africa 8.5 8.6 9.2 8.9
South Sudan
Spain 8.5 9.0 9.6 9.5
Sri Lanka 3.7 3.4 3.2 2.9
St. Kitts and Nevis 5.4 5.0 5.2 6.7
St. Lucia 7.2 8.1 8.4 8.7
St. Martin (French part)
St. Vincent and the Grenadines 3.9 4.6 4.6 4.5
Sudan 6.0 6.9 7.3 6.3
Suriname 7.3 6.8 7.5 7.0
Swaziland 6.0 6.6 6.7 6.6
Sweden 8.9 9.2 10.0 9.6
Switzerland 10.6 10.7 11.4 11.5
Syrian Arab Republic 3.8 3.4 3.5 3.4
Tajikistan 5.3 5.6 5.9 6.0
Tanzania 5.7 5.5 5.5 6.0
Thailand 3.6 4.0 4.2 3.9
Timor-Leste 15.4 13.8 11.9 9.1
Togo 6.6 6.8 7.4 7.7
Tonga 6.8 6.2 4.7 5.1
Trinidad and Tobago 4.8 4.5 5.8 5.7
Tunisia 6.2 6.2 6.4 6.2
Turkey 6.0 6.1 6.7 6.7
Turkmenistan 2.5 1.9 2.5 2.5
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu 11.8 19.5 14.3 16.4
Uganda 8.4 8.6 8.5 9.0
Ukraine 6.4 6.6 7.8 7.7
United Arab Emirates 2.5 3.0 4.4 3.7
United Kingdom 8.4 8.9 9.8 9.6
United States 16.1 16.5 17.6 17.9
Uruguay 7.9 7.7 8.4 8.4
Uzbekistan 5.5 5.4 5.9 5.8
Vanuatu 3.8 4.3 4.9 5.2
Venezuela, RB 5.8 5.4 6.0 4.9
Vietnam 7.0 6.6 6.9 6.8
Virgin Islands (U.S.)
West Bank and Gaza
Yemen, Rep. 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.2
Zambia 5.8 6.1 6.2 5.9
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