The average real growth rate was 4.5 per cent, whereas the rate of inflation was lowered and stabilized at less than 5 per cent.

The average internal costs declined with the size of the company, while the external costs remained nearly stable.

These activities contributed to the steady improvement in the casualty rate.

Since then the rate has fallen, and in 1994 the average rate was 6.6 per cent.

Since the beginning of the 1990's, the level of fertility in Israel remained constant with an average of 2.9 births per woman, a sharp decline from the 3.9 average in the 1960's.

Fertility rates have fallen steadily in Colombia since the 1960s.

In Africa, the indicators for cocaine abuse show an overall decrease since 1998 however, the trend appears to have been stable in the past two years.

(f) Lower average life expectancy in the past few years.

Average tariff rates dropped substantially (see table 3).

As these operations stabilize over the medium to long term, the volume of procurement is likely to remain more or less constant or to decline.

Poverty levels have declined significantly, from 69.5 per cent in 1997 to 54 per cent in 2003.

The sea levels were dropping. And Africa was turning to desert.

And the U.N. says it's a reduction with 1.8 percent.

The level is dropping, rather like the Aral Sea.

The industries with high energy consumption and high pollution decline by 2 percentage points while hi tech industry, equipment manufacturing industry and consumer products industry keep growing steadily and quickly.

In real terms, wages no longer rose (indeed, the average real wage has been stagnant for 25 years in the US), and a growing share of manpower (currently around 15 ) was without steady employment. Everywhere, the share of wages and incomes began to fall as a proportion of GDP.

The infant mortality rate had been reduced by 15 per cent relative to 1994, and the reduction in life expectancy had been halted.

You will not have to box when you get your decline.

Between 1993 and 2001, this ratio rose steadily in rural areas and fell in urban areas.

Since 1993, the age standardized mortality rates for women in the target age group have declined steadily.

In recent years there has been a significant decrease in real estate and rental values and construction costs have stabilized.

396. Infant mortality dropped by 14 per cent, and child mortality, by 28 per cent, compared with 1977 1981, this downward trend being chiefly linked to an increase in the educational levels of mothers.

I said keep it steady!

Wage levels fall and job losses are frequent.

For the five Parties with decreasing CO2 emissions the range of reduction was from 2 to 22 per cent compared to the 1990 level.

The prices of US homes are also declining at an accelerating rate, in many areas by more than 10 per year. The prices of traded mortgage backed securities have followed house prices down.

But it is only a matter of time until they fall, too. After all, the Standard ampamp Poor s US price earnings ratio is still above its long term average 26.84 in 2007, compared to its long term average since 1881 of 16.31.

Nearly all the indicators of child mortality have decreased by approximately 50 per cent from their 1987 level. The most significant decline occurred during the period from 1987 to 1995, after which the rate has tended to stabilize.

13. Official development assistance, far from increasing, had been falling, widening the gap between rich and poor countries and jeopardizing the world apos s stability, security and peace.

And, we must remember, this process is all we have going for us in the global effort to reduce the level of armaments in the world and to stabilize their effect.

The number of people receiving Social Assistance in PEI declined steadily from 1994 to 2004.

Only in North America has there been a recent and steady decline in crime rates over the past eight years.

After the implementation of the Uruguay Round, the bound tariffs are expected to remain stable or decrease only slightly.

It will be noted that the total outputs programmed have shown a steady decline over the period of the medium term plan.

Any further reduction in those services would not only unfairly deprive the refugees of the level of support to which they were entitled, but could also have a destabilizing effect on the entire region.

(a) Substantial falls in wage levels, with corresponding declines in living standards

Despite their declining incomes, households raised their spending in early 2012 at a rapid pace by cutting their saving rate to just 3.7 . Without further declines in the saving rate from this very low level, consumer spending will not continue to grow as robustly.

Steady! That's got it.

Some can glide as flat as 60 feet forward for every foot of descent.

In other words, it has fallen annually by 3.5 per cent over the past 12 years.

The 15 to 19 year olds experienced a drop in average personal income during the period, which was also true for the 20 to 24 year olds from 1988 1992.

However, while the maternal mortality ratio has shown a strong downward trend, from 160 per 100,000 live births in 2000 to 99 in 2004, the rate of decline is not yet sufficient to achieve the relevant Goal.

206. Infant mortality has fallen steadily throughout the last decade from 8.2 per 1,000 infants under one year in 1986 to 5.4 in 1992 (see art. 12, para. 5).

Large families still, and the HIV epidemic brought down the countries like this.

They have a very high level. It's coming down.