A slight decline from 9 to 8.6 per cent in the rates of male and female illiteracy in 1993, although the decline for women was slightly less than for men (8.4 ).

However, the numbers dropped slightly in 1998 1999.

The participation of men in labour activity has decreased slightly, from 78.2 in 1995 to 76.8 in 2000.

Every third household considered that it had dropped slightly and 21.4 per cent of the households surveyed that it had dropped significantly.

The number of cases accessing services has declined slightly in the past four years.

That figure had decreased slightly, however, between 2002 and 2003 for both women (0.5 per cent decrease) and the overall population (1.4 per cent decrease).

Agency execution will decrease slightly, from 81 per cent to 74 per cent, with a corresponding increase in UNDCP execution.

This figure had decreased marginally to 78 in 2001 2002.

While poverty rates have decreased slightly in recent years, the total number of poor people has risen substantially.

The data seem to indicate a slight decline in heroin trafficking in Africa in recent years.

Developing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and in the Middle East and North Africa experienced modest declines in their total debt stocks of 0.8 per cent and 2.1 per cent, respectively.

The figure for males declined slightly from 1.0 to 0.91 .

Similarly, although the number of staff promoted increased from 144 to 265, the proportion of women promoted declined slightly, from 47.9 per cent to 46.0 per cent.

Rates of inflation picked up in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, falling somewhat in India and the Islamic Republic of Iran and more sharply in Turkey.

However, in March 1996 there was a slight decrease compared to the data for the previous year, as can be seen in table 7.4.

In accordance with the strategic determination, hospital capacities have lately been decreased.

41. This strategy has cut xenophobic crime by 75 per cent in Saxony.

Recently, there are indicators pointing to a slight drop in the home ownership rate, probably best perceptible in the younger age groups.

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

In Central and Eastern European countries a slight downward trend has been observed.

Short term debt as a percentage of foreign exchange reserves fell moderately during 1997.

The temperature will drop slightly.

And one of the things that you see is that male line, the mortality is going down, down, down, down, down.

There had been a slight increase in 1999 to 83.5 million but, in 2000, delivery had reached a record low of 68.7 million, a fall of 17 per cent compared with 1999 and 29 per cent compared with 1997.

Europe showed a small decline, from 100 per cent to 96 per cent (see figure II).

The above table also reveals a persistent phenomenon in recent years a slight fall in the number of women who enter into a diplomatic career.

During October, the number of internally displaced persons diminished slightly to 1.75 million as a result of new registrations and some small scale returns.

Increases are expected in every region, except sub Saharan Africa, which is expected to increase expenditures in 2004, but decrease funding levels slightly in 2005.

In 2001, the rate of employment in health care protection in BIH was slightly decreased in comparison to the previous year and amounts to 1.017 100.000 people.

292. Although the average number of children has declined among women in both urban and rural areas, what was regarded as the traditional urban rural differential in the number of children was maintained until the early 1980s, when there was a slackening in the overall fertility rate of urban women, accompanied by a slight increase in the rate of decline among rural women (Table XXIV).

There has been a slight reduction in the rate of female illiteracy from 9 per cent in 1990 to 8.4 per cent in 1993.

From 1970 to 1990 the proportion of minors dropped from 44.7 per cent to 37.6 per cent, a relatively large decrease.

The Secretariat attained a collection rate of 90.5 per cent for 2004 (2002 93.0 per cent), a slight deterioration as compared to 2002 but still above the collection rate of 2002 2003 (89.8 per cent). However,

This was an increase of two thirds compared to the Eighth Congress, followed by a slight decrease in their participation during the fourth session of the Commission.

And there is a slight downturn.

Gradually, bringing it down, bringing it down.

Over the same period, the shortage of piped water was reduced from 28.4 to 10 per cent, while the absence of electricity fell even more markedly from 21.8 to 4.5 per cent.

In some cases, such a loss of credit worthiness was justified.

The devils did not bring it down

The devils did not bring it down

And this Qur an was not brought down by the devils.

And this Qur an was not brought down by the devils.

Not by the Satans has it been brought down

Not by the Satans has it been brought down

And the satans have not brought it down.