Polio cases worldwide rose last year by almost a third.

The incidence has been rising worldwide, and in the United States 7,000 to 8,000 cases are diagnosed every year.

Although the incidence of the disease continues to rise worldwide, cases in the United States seem to have stabilized.

For reasons that remain unclear to researchers, the prevalence of asthma is rising worldwide.

The duet rose to the top of the charts in many Spanish-speaking countries worldwide.

Once considered a problem only of high-income countries, obesity rates are rising worldwide.

And some of the others said or implied that healthcare costs were rising at an unsustainable pace worldwide.

They certainly need more support from the state than migrant workers, and their numbers did indeed rise worldwide in the late 1990s.

Consumption still rises worldwide by about 4 %, mainly in the developing countries.

The dollar fell and gold prices rose worldwide.