national average
Noun
Meaning
national average (plural national averages)
The average value for something across a particular nation.
House prices in London are higher than the national average.
Examples
Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
The European Commission uses an explicit relative poverty line of 60 per cent of national average income.
The health care of farmworkers is almost nonexistent, and the rate of tuberculosis is 200 percent above the national average.