As a result, the disease burden in the developed world has declined substantially.

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

Sami's health has sharply declined.

On the contrary, ODA has declined.

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 social assistance recipients has declined.

Analysis of labour income data and National Child Benefit simulations indicate the both the depth and incidence of poverty have declined substantially over the period from 1999 2003.

Meanwhile, the US share of global output has declined.

UNIDIR has now increased its work on disarmament education substantially.

In addition, it has amended the bracketed paragraph 14(2) substantially.

In fact, in the Olympics, India s record has declined over time.

The extreme poverty rate has declined significantly between 1999 and 2010.

As rates of economic growth have declined, this has meant growing unemployment.

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

Since the Industrial Revolution began, human activity has substantially changed the atmosphere s composition.

Secondly, as living conditions have improved, the incidence of poverty has fallen substantially.

Within Lebanon itself, Hezbollah is still strong, but its comfort level has declined.

While the renminbi has risen relative to the dollar, the dollar has declined against other major currencies.

Industrial production has been unchanged for the past two months, and utilization of industrial capacity has declined.

The process of clearing certain goods through customs within the Sudan has improved substantially.

Unfortunately, Europe has done no such thing if anything, R D spending has actually declined slightly since then.

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

Yet the dollar, a symbol of American financial power, has surged rather than declined.

Otherwise, although Russia s objective strengths remain unchanged, our influence in international affairs has declined.

The global growth rate peaked at 2.2 in 1963, and has declined to 1.1 .

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.

Poll after poll confirms that America s soft power has declined, particularly in the Islamic world.

There is indeed reason to be worried, but not because the rupee s value has declined.

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

The security situation has also improved outside the camps, with substantially fewer injuries and deaths reported.

The continued confiscation of Palestinian lands by Israel has substantially undermined the agricultural sector's absorptive capacity.

But now that the subsidies have ended, the level of both sales and production has 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.

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

He declined my proposal.

3 declined to answer.

The crude oil price already has dropped substantially from its highs at the beginning of the year.

The yen s value against the US dollar has declined by more than 7 in the last month.

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.