Inequality has been falling.

The canneries are gone. The pollution has abated.

Moreover, the number of local tourists declined, while the number of foreign tourists grew.

India s fixed investment ratio, by contrast, has declined in recent years to around 30 of GDP.

This is the strongest decline in net foreign demand facing a single country, or, equivalently, the strongest increase in a country s net demand for foreign goods.

Our numbers in media and public offices have gone down since 2010.

And since the 1930s the number of houses that are torn apart in The Bahamas has been a whole lot fewer.

Later, we optimized the site on the basis of this data, and our bounce rate dropped to 20 .

But the move proved to be a strategic defeat, given that it significantly diminished the United States political influence in Iraq.

Trust in medical institutions dropped from 73 to 29 , and in journalism from 29 to 14 .

Moreover, with household wealth having far outstripped wage rates, the supply of labor diminished.

As the perception of non partisanship in public administration has diminished, proximity to those in power has become another source of tension.

The number of people joining political parties has dropped sharply as ideological identification with either the left or the right has waned.

Owing largely to the political vicissitudes that occurred in France during the 1790s, Versailles succumbed to further degradations.

But seen from a historical perspective, there has been a striking decline in work related injuries and deaths in the US.

The annual number of housing starts has fallen by 1.2 million units, cutting annual GDP by an additional 250 billion.

So in the United States, since the advent of treatment in the middle of the 1990s, there's been an 80 percent decline in the number of HIV infected children.

Worse, the surplus fell from 3.2 to 0.5 of GDP, and fell even allowing for the business cycle.

The construction of a dam on part of the lake, accompanied by a recent drought has significantly decreased the annual amount of water Urmia receives.

As a result, the debt to GDP ratio declined only modestly until 2004 and rose again to more than 106 in 2005.

This time, manufacturing employment has actually fallen during the expansion, something unprecedented in American history.

However, that number is smaller than the 78 percent who expressed support in August 2014.

After a dip in the number of incidents during late 2007 and 2008, violence once again increased in 2009.

Educational opportunities have multiplied, air and water pollution have plummeted, and life expectancy has increased almost to West European levels across the region.

True, cancer deaths have dropped chiefly because of long delayed and still poorly supported efforts to curb smoking.

Indeed, high school graduation rates dropped in Las Vegas as people left school for readily available unskilled construction jobs.

In fact, public consumption in the eurozone has de facto remained fairly constant over the last three years, whereas it has declined substantially in the US.

Tehran s air pollution, widely blamed by those with respiratory illness on low octane Ahmadinejad gasoline, has visibly declined with the introduction of high octane fuel and other restrictions.

The recently rising euro also has helped keep down European long term interest rates a key determinant of economic activity as inflationary expectations deteriorated somewhat in the euro zone area.

As of 2012, approximately 35.3 million people have HIV worldwide with the number of new infections that year being about 2.3 million.

With Indonesia s ratification, the number of countries that have yet to do so has decreased to eight China, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea, and the United States.

From 1964 1997, the share of Americans who trusted universities fell from 61 to 30 , while trust in major companies fell from 55 to 21 .

Even as the militancy has abated by the government s own admission the number of militants now is less than 400 the intensity and lethalness of the response by Indian troops has not descreased.

Cold War The Cold War was a major political, economic and military endeavor for over four decades, but the confrontation between the two superpowers had decreased dramatically by the end of Reagan's presidency.

According to the economist Nora Lustig, between 2000 and 2010, income inequality declined in all 17 Latin American countries for which comparable data exist.

China expert Michael Pettis has shown that consumption as a percentage of Chinese GDP has fallen from an already low 46 in 2000 to 35.6 in 2009.

The system might become overloaded with the amount of paperwork, and those, who wish to look for loopholes in it, will be able to take advantage far more easily than if the limits had remained higher.

Their populations have been greatly reduced since the 17th century the number of green turtles has declined from 91 million to 300,000 and hawksbill turtles from 11 million to less than 30,000 by 2006.

As the actual number of truly heinous crimes has in fact fallen, increasingly it is small time hoodlums, drug users, and mentally ill people who have been drawing long spells behind bars.

While killings have declined sharply in recent years, hardly a day passes without some form of violence, often against civilians including children.

By last May, the share had declined to half astoundingly low for some of the world s most enthusiastic soccer fans with small but strident protests persisting across the country.

Proof The number of taxed establishments, like the sums paid, have fallen between 2007 and 2011, from 59 000 to 46 000 structures (and from 606 to 480 million Euros).

In other words, if your trust in the market and in the way it is regulated fell sharply, you were less likely to deposit money in banks or invest in stocks.

The median time taken to approve new drugs fell from 833 days in 2006 to 306 days in 2012, according to the London based Center for Innovation in Regulatory Science.

In the United States, for example, the Pew Institute reported that the number of Americans who regard global warming as a very serious problem had declined from 44 in April 2008 to only 35 last October.