Inequality has diminished, though from astronomically high levels.

So it is not surprising that the number of farmers needed has fallen substantially.

But in 2010 the number has decreased to 742.

Thus the stock of unprocessed appeal proceedings was reduced by 22 percent.

Over the interwar period, the German population decreased even further.

Terrorist attacks on Russia did not cease or decline.

It is true that US attention to Latin America has waned in recent years.

The average domestic increase suffered a drop of 2.3 percent since 2009.

However, the number of women working in media has gone down over the last two years.

During the first year of Mario Lopez Valdez management, in Sinaloa increased the unemployment and the informality, foreign investment declined and the economy was reduced.

Yet they see that, under Karzai, Saudi influence has declined in Afghanistan since 2001, while that of the Iranians has strengthened.

We found that after they adopted it the complication rates fell 35 percent.

While complaints against parents, based on allegedly repressed and recovered memories of abuse, have declined, those against large institutions, such as the Catholic Church, have increased.

According to the Swedish authorities, the number of prostitutes in Sweden has dropped 40 as a result.

Gridlock has abated, and you can almost get around the city by car these days.

He noticed that Betsy's delight cooled down when she learnt that Anna had not yet been divorced.

Six of our netizens believe the importance of the blogs after the presidential election did not diminish, two think blogs became more important, and three believe their importance was diminished.

While the size of the central government fell dramatically, with employment at the State Council halved from 34,000 to 17,000, corruption continued to fester.

In Europe, even as the number of vehicles has doubled, the number of road deaths has been halved.

Census results since 1971 have shown an increase in the percentage of people under the age of 25 able to speak Welsh, while the percentage of those over the age of 25 able to speak Welsh has fallen.

Despite record levels of money and personnel, the playing field for asking basic questions has shrunk.

Criminologists have shown, statistically, that in US states where convicts are executed, serious crimes have not diminished. Other criminologists argue that this finding, if well founded, should then apply to any criminal law every day, criminal prohibitions are infringed yet if we did not have such prohibitions, crimes would be even more rampant.

Undergraduate enrollment of Japanese students in US universities has fallen by more than 50 since 2000.

Criminologists have shown, statistically, that in US states where convicts are executed, serious crimes have not diminished.

The land is neglected, overgrown with wormwood or given to the peasants, and where eight million bushels used to be produced they now only produce eight hundred thousand. The wealth of the nation has decreased.

While total construction spending recently rose by a very small 0.3 (less than the measurement error), private construction spending actually fell and residential construction was down a much more significant 4 .

So, the New Economy did not abolish poverty amidst plenty, though there are now relatively fewer people in destitution in America (i.e. less than 17,000 for a family of 4). Of course, the rich are getting richer (a lot richer!), but low income groups are gaining ground, too.

So, the New Economy did not abolish poverty amidst plenty, though there are now relatively fewer people in destitution in America (i.e. less than 17,000 for a family of 4).

Suggestions for boss Xi Word has it that the number of rivers covering an area of 100 square kilometers has reduced 27,000 over the last 30 years.

Violence decreased most significantly with the disbanding of the right wing paramilitaries, and with the decimation in battle of the left wing FARC guerillas and the decapitation of its leadership.

The Americans are happy that India s pesky left, reduced to a paltry 24 seats, has been all but eliminated from national government.

But with the end of the Cold War, the pressure to remain a step ahead has waned, depriving the defense sector of a crucial engine of progress.

As public anxiety has abated, and senior officials have felt less pressure to show that they are doing something, the most flagrant abuses have declined.

His role in the offense diminished, as he attempted only 10 field goals per game, versus his career average of 17.

In the interwar crisis of democracy, participation in elections surged as voters tried to protest against what the radical parties denounced as the system . In Germany in 2009, electoral participation fell by 5 , to 72.5 . Those voters who were disillusioned by politics simply thought that there was no point in voting.

Indeed, just in the last ten years, Russia s population has dropped by 9.5 million, despite the many thousands of Russians returning from former Soviet republics.

This is a time of need.

President Mahmoud Abbas was never an inspiring figure for Palestinians. With the loss of Gaza to Hamas, his political clout has been diminished even further.

Even in absolute terms, despite population growth, the number of extremely poor people fell during that period, from 1.9 billion to 1.4 billion.

But the population is declining and it's declined fairly substantially, about 21 percent since 1987, when I started these surveys, in terms of number of active nests.

The number of African households that sleep under insecticide treated bed nets has risen from 3 to 53 , and malaria deaths have fallen by one third.

In the United States, the number of experts giving a favorable assessment of the current situation declined indeed, a majority believes that the economic situation will worsen during the next six months.

There's a time to be born, and there's a time to die.

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Over the second half of the twentieth century, the hungry of the Earth shrank from half of its three billion human inhabitants to less than a billion of the current 6.5 billion.