* 2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at, at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.

The world's highest unconfirmed temperature was a temperature flare up during a heat burst in June 1967, with a temperature of.

It is the third highest peak in Southeast Asia, making Borneo the world's third highest island.

The world's highest brick tower of St. Martin's Church, Landshut | St. Martin's Church in Landshut, Germany, completed in 1500

It also houses the world's highest church inside a skyscraper, Sky City Church.

Cotopaxi in Ecuador is one of the world's highest active volcanos.

Unemployment was very low, and the Faroese were enjoying one of the world's highest standards of living.

Savings rate hovered among the world's highest, at around 8 % until the 80s.

Germany has one of the world's highest levels of education, technological development, and economic productivity.

The countries in Africa had the highest pre-tax Gini coefficients in 2008-2009, with South Africa the world's highest at 0. 7.

This trend now has extended to other resorts worldwide, but the concentration in Las Vegas is still the world's highest: nineteen of the world's twenty-five largest hotels by room count are on the Strip, with a total of over 67, 000 rooms.

Since its post-WW2 economic boom in the 1970s, Finland's GDP per capita has been among the world's highest.

Savings rate hovered among the world's highest, at around 8 % until the 1980s.

Kangchenjunga, on the border between Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim, is the highest point in India at and the world's 3rd highest peak.

* The Himalayan range is considered as the world's highest mountain range, with its tallest peak Mt.

According to the Human Development Index, the country enjoys a very high standard of living, and, according to The Economist, has the world's 8th highest quality of life.

The economy of Japan is the third largest national economy in the world after the United States and the People's Republic of China and is the world's second largest developed economy According to the International Monetary Fund, the country's per capita GDP ( PPP ) was at $ 34, 739 or the 25th highest in 2011.

A highlight for Polgár was her elimination of the tournament's No. 1 seed and world's fifth highest rated player, Sergey Karjakin.

In 2010, Monocle ranked Munich as the world's most livable city ( in 2012, Munich was ranked fifth in Monocle's ranking, yet remained the highest ranked city in Germany ).

Mali has one of the world's highest rates of infant mortality, with 106 deaths per 1, 000 live births.

Though official economic statistics are not published, year 2011 estimates place the national product at $ 6. 888 billion and the world's highest per capita income is $ 186, 175.

Canada has the tenth largest economy in the world ( measured in US dollars at market exchange rates ), is one of the world's wealthiest nations, and is a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and Group of Eight ( G8 ).

With the sharp growth of economies in the 20th century, and increasing foreign exchange, the world's gold reserves and their trading market have become a small fraction of all markets and fixed exchange rates of currencies to gold were no longer sustained.

With the world's seventh largest military expenditure, ninth largest economy by nominal rates and third largest by purchasing power parity, India is a regional power, a nascent great power and a potential superpower.

With average growth rates of 10 % in the 1960s, 5 % in the 1970s, and 4 % in the 1980s, Japan was able to establish and maintain itself as the world's second largest economy from 1968 until 2010, when it was supplanted by the People's Republic of China.

King Mswati III is often criticized for living so lavishly in a nation that is afflicted by one of the world's highest HIV infection rates.

Around 1900 infant mortality rates ( IMR ) in Uruguay were among the world's lowest, indicating a very healthy population.

About 40 percent of the world's population lives within the tropical zone ( by 2008 statistics ), and it is estimated that by 2060 60 % of the population will be in the tropics, owing to high birth rates and migration.

According to the UNDP, Algeria has one of the world's highest per housing unit occupancy rates for housing, and government officials have publicly stated that the country has an immediate shortfall of 1. 5 million housing units.

As an example, in the early 20th century when much of the world's oil was untapped, it was sufficient to drill a few metres into the ground and install inexpensive rigs to extract oil at rapid rates.

As a result of computer ownership bans, computer ownership rates were among the world's lowest.

The Pacific is also home to one of the world's most active spreading centres ( the East Pacific Rise ( EPR )) with spreading rates of up to 13 cm / yr.

In 2008, the IUCN classified Asian golden cats as Near Threatened, stating that the species comes close to qualifying as Vulnerable due to hunting pressure and habitat loss, since Southeast Asian forests are undergoing the world's fastest regional deforestation rates.

Borneo has one of the world's highest deforestation rates.

Since U. S. saving rates were very low ( roughly one-third of Japan's ,) the deficit was mostly covered by borrowing from abroad, turning the United States within a few years from the world's greatest creditor nation to the world's greatest debtor.

Fixed rates meant that it was practical to avoid handling money to send a letter by using an " adhesive label ", and accordingly, on May 6, the Penny Black became the world's first postage stamp in use.

For instance, French green politician Eva Joly claimed that during Bongo's long reign, despite an oil-led GDP per capita growth to one of the highest levels in Africa, Gabon built only 5 km of freeway a year and still had one of the world's highest infant mortality rates by the time of his death in 2009.

Global literacy rates continued to rise, and the percentage of the world's labor pool needed to produce humankind's food supply continued to drop.

Since his death, under Jiang's leadership, mainland China has sustained an average of 8 % GDP growth annually, achieving one of the world's highest rates of per capita economic growth, and became the world's fastest growing major economy.

The new national authority aims to bring Australian transplant rates up to world's best practice.

A regular Sydney-Melbourne overland service began in 1838, as did embossed covers ( the world's second, after William Dockwra established the London Penny Post in 1680 ) prepaid postage, and by 1849 uniform postal rates were established by agreement between the colonies.

The modern foreign exchange market began forming during the 1970s after three decades of government restrictions on foreign exchange transactions ( the Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial and financial relations among the world's major industrial states after World War II ), when countries gradually switched to floating exchange rates from the previous exchange rate regime, which remained fixed as per the Bretton Woods system.