The number of stakeholder groups has increased over time owing to an increased focus on the multiple values of forests.

The number of children acquiring citizenship by naturalisation has increased.

Visits to specific sections of the website such as research, training and mainstreaming also increased significantly and have maintained an upward trend.

The number of female judges continues to climb.

In Venezuela, a population of Santería followers has been growing since 2008.

These changes mainly reflect the growing number of elderly population, as the population gentrifies.

It applauded the increased use of national staff, but a larger number of offices should not necessarily be accompanied by a proliferation of civilian personnel.

They are also suggested by the fact that more enterprises are investing abroad and more countries are encouraging their firms to do so.

It noted that a growing number of developing countries were initiating SSC activities designed to benefit a large number of developing countries.

The number of female colonel and brigadier general are at an ascent, as shown in the following table.

The longer the turnaround lasts, the more people will believe that it will continue.

A positive trend is the growing number of female candidates in both parliamentary and local government council elections.

In recent years, the number of General Assembly resolutions approved by consensus has increased steadily.

While the number of some petty crimes had increased, there had been an overall decline in serious crime in the country.

The increasing use of contraceptives will also lessen the numbers of women who become pregnant against their wishes.

As a result, it has earned for itself the trust and confidence of Member States, as demonstrated by the continued increase in the number and diversity of cases referred to it.

It recognizes the downward trend in the number of newly displaced persons, noting however that the total number of newly displaced has increased.

The number of sports clubs has increased year by year, and so has the absolute number of people active in hobby sports, including women.

With an increasing number of arms embargo violations, the trend has continued to rely less on air transport to ferry the illegal arms shipments.

It recognizes the downward trend in the number of newly displaced persons, noting however that the total number of newly displaced has increased.

The growing strength and coherence of the opposition is not due to the number of disaffected Chávez supporters alone.

The second was that only women were victims of trafficking in fact, the number of men and children involved had increased.

With more and more developing country firms internationalizing, this trend can be expected to continue and possibly accelerate.

Since the 1997 Handover, an increase in immigrants from communist China and greater interaction with the mainland's economy have brought an increasing number of Mandarin speakers to Hong Kong.

As the number of post intervention reviews increases, a rudimentary framework for evaluating the impact of NGOs has appeared.

The country s demographic structure is changing, with an increasing number of retirees relative to the workers who are in their prime saving years.

As the number of complaints processed under a new optional protocol grows, provision of the necessary conference services and editing and translation services will be necessary.

Beginning in 1999, the increase in enrolment has become steady and has demonstrated a tendency to accelerate due to the ageing population of subscribers.

The assessment team found substantive evidence of an increasing number of illegal chainsaw operators in practically all the former concession areas.

According to forecasts, however, in addition to the growing incidence of thyroid cancer among persons exposed to radioactive iodine, an increase in the number of cases of other forms of malignant neoplasm and cardiovascular and other non oncological types of disease may be expected in the years immediately ahead.

For the same period, the number of young women living with their parents increased from 8 in 2005 to 10 in 2011.

With public sectors offering an increased number of services, the focus is shifting from what kinds of services are provided to how they are provided.

We are pleased to note that the number of States parties to the Convention has increased to 149, evidence of the growing universality of the Convention.

In the light of the growing number and increasing scale of peacebuilding missions, humanitarian organizations and peacebuilders must increase their interaction and engagement.

Tourist arrivals have been increasing over the years with more than 100,000 tourists visiting the islands in 2005, up from 70,000 in 1996.

With the increase in population, a shift away from the rural communities toward urban centres, this important cultural safety net is slowly diminishing.

The number of extreme precipitation events is also increasing and are increasingly widespread.

The number of people living on less than 1.25 a day increased from 549 million in 1981 to 595 million in 2005.

The number of zones in Indian Railways increased from six to eight in 1951, nine in 1952 and sixteen in 2003.

In the United States and Canada more use is made of large factory trawlers, while the huge blue water fleets operated by Japan and the Soviet bloc countries have contracted.

With initial funding of 32 billion of French francs over five years (1991 1995), it would increase the number of premises, while the number of students was increasing.

Since then the number of visitors has continued to grow, reaching 2.3 million in 2012 and 3 million in 2014.

26. We commit ourselves to according priority to containing the growth and overcrowding of pre trial and detention prison populations, as appropriate, by promoting safe and effective alternatives to incarceration.

The number of journals that can be accessed by the libraries in electronic, rather than print, format has grown by more than 50 per cent during the past 10 years.

Under conditions of increased population, intensified migrations and modernization, there is an increased use of eco toxic substances, radioactive matters and so on.