Inequality has diminished, though from astronomically high levels.

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

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

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

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.

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

But in 2010 the number has decreased to 742.

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

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

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

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.

Terrorist attacks on Russia did not cease or decline.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

In the last three or so years the space for independent media in the country has shrunk markedly, with pro opposition papers and media delving into the conflict in the Kurdish speaking east teetering on the brink of extinction.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 .

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 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.

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.

Contagion among newborn babies, once running at around 70,000 per year, have been cut by some 63 , and the lives of millions of HIV AIDS sufferers have been prolonged.

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.

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.

With a Grain of Druska writes about Lithuania's worsening demographic situation Population has decreased about 19 per cent (the same as if 62.3 million US citizens left the U.S.A.).

According to Oxfam, since 2010, the world's richest have been able to increase their wealth out of all proportion to the slowing global economy, while the wealth of the world's bottom half has decreased by a trillion dollars.

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.

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.

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

For America and Europe, the need for labor to move out of manufacturing is compounded by shifting comparative advantage not only is the total number of manufacturing jobs limited globally, but a smaller share of those jobs will be local.

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.

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

Although Iraq still matters a lot to Americans, its importance for determining how they vote has receded, partly because US casualties there are markedly down as the security situation appears to be gradually improving.

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.