On the contrary, ODA has declined.

The number of social assistance recipients has declined.

Violence has declined dramatically over the last 500 years.

That number has declined from the 1.6 million peak registered in 1993.

The number of those favouring the previous situation has in fact declined drastically.

The number of women has declined in management, but has remained the same among technical and auxiliary personnel.

The federal debt has declined by over 61 billion over the last eight years.

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

Female illiteracy has been reduced to acceptable levels, and school dropout rates have declined.

However, we have to confront the fact that this ratio has declined, whereas it has risen almost everywhere else.

However, donor interest in the programme has steadily declined, raising concern about the programme's sustainability.

Counsel declined.

The rate has declined since the base year from 73 to 38 per 1,000 live births.

The horizontal and vertical gender segregation has not declined since the submission of the previous report.

Overall, productivity per worker, which is the major component of growth from within , has consistently declined.

I should've declined.

So taboo number four you can't say that your average happiness has declined since having a child.

The proportion of heavy smokers has declined among both men and women over the past few years.

Africa is the only continent in which food production has declined significantly over the past two decades.

The budget deficit has been brought down sharply, and unemployment has declined. Yet Krugman now says that everything has turned out just as he predicted.

The ratio of debt service to exports for these countries has declined to an average of 10 per cent.

It further submits that it has declined to appear for the individuals against whom allegations of torture are made.

Tom declined to give details.

The coverage has remained stable in Europe, East and South East Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean and has declined in Sub Saharan Africa.

Life expectancy at birth for these countries has declined from 1990 levels, except in the cases of Bolivia and Mauritania.

Qatar's share of oil in total exports has continuously declined, while its exports of liquid natural gas have increased substantially.

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11. Notes with concern that the rate of provision of interpretation services to the regional and other major groupings has declined

Among other achievements, child mortality is slightly down, HIV prevalence has declined and the campaigns against polio and malaria are yielding results.

Palestinian living conditions have declined dramatically and the health and nutritional status of the Palestinian population, particularly women and children, has worsened.

In the Pacific, the biomass of large predatory fish caught by longline fishing, for example, has declined by 90 percent since 1950.

Japan's new defense minister, Tomomi Inada, has declined to say whether she would visit the shrine because it was a matter of conscience.

The Mission has no account of the meeting from Mr. Assad's side the Syrian authorities declined the Mission's request to meet with him.

And it declined very fast a classic boom and bust fishery, which suggests that a stock has been depleted or there's low reproductive rates.

The number of children living in families receiving Income Support in the province has declined significantly, from 25,000 in 2000 to 20,200 in 2003.

There is indeed reason to be worried, but not because the rupee s value has declined. In fact, the slide has been long in coming, and recent market uncertainty has merely been a wake up call.

Of the ones that stayed, their reproductive rate declined.

Indeed, the accident rate in built up areas has declined significantly over recent years, while three fourths of fatal accidents now occur in the countryside.

In developed countries, fertility declined much earlier than in the developing world and has been very low (below 2 children per woman) since the 1980s.

A hospital spokesman declined to comment on the boy's condition.

The number of civilian jobs declined from 44,062 to 43,415.

The figure for males declined slightly from 1.0 to 0.91 .

These declined owing to the crisis of the mid 1990s.

However, the trend of renouncing Vietnamese citizenship has declined thanks to better legal framework, improved national and individual economic conditions, easy travel and higher community spirit.

Yet, as Erdoğan and his moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party have consolidated their power and their control of the country, their tolerance for dissent has declined. Today, Internet freedom has largely disappeared.