The rate of economic decline has slowed.

Brazil's population increased significantly between 1940 and 1970, because of a decline in the mortality rate, even though the birth rate underwent a slight decline.

Ironically, since 2004, the homeownership rate has been in decline.

In the same period, the mortality rate observed a significant decline.

And the most recent monthly decline corresponded to an annual rate of more than 25 .

A variety of forces have contributed to a continuing decline in Japan s household saving rate.

In 2007, the country's rate of population decline was the fourth highest in the world.

Thus, a total fertility rate of 2.1 represents replacement level, while anything below represents a sub replacement fertility rate leading to population decline.

After that, however, the Soviet growth rate and share of global output began a long decline.

The total fertility rate for Vanuatu is 4.5, a decline from 5.3 in 1989.

The unemployment rate has been in decline since 2003, and the overall rate of employment is the highest since statistics were first compiled in 1995.

12.10 Vanuatu's crude birth rate per 1,000 is 33, a decline from 37 in 1989.

The rate of decline would then determine the extent to which the worst effects of climate change can be avoided.

If that country had its own currency, the exchange rate would decline, benefiting exports and impeding imports.

The rate of decline of US house prices fell in the past three months for which we have data (ending in May), and the figures for May show essentially no decline at all.

Slower population growth and a demographically driven decline in the labor force participation rate will reduce employment growth.

The recent rise in the US household saving rate reversed a long term decline that began 25 years ago.

Many speakers indicated that there was a decline in the HIV infection rate following the implementation of specific activities in their countries

After all, if a country s debt GDP ratio is to decline without austerity, the interest rate that it pays on its debt must be lower than its GDP growth rate.

The most significant decline occurred during the period from 1987 to 1995, after which the rate has tended to stabilize.

Indeed, with domestic oil consumption growing at a higher rate than production, government revenues from oil exports are already in decline.

That predictable dollar decline makes the relative return on holding dollar bonds even lower than the interest rate differential alone implies.

Despite this rate of decline, this target is still far from the Millennium Goal for 2015, which is 62 for every 100,000 live births.

By 2008, the French rate can be expected to decline only to 8.2 , while German unemployment is anticipated to fall to 6.3 .

The decline of parties reflects the decline of class.

That decline in the dollar exchange rate is necessary to shrink the very large trade deficit that the US has with the rest of the world.

An important implication of the decline in the fertility rate to replacement level or below is the pressure on the family to care for the elderly.

Meanwhile, the headline unemployment rate does not reflect the growing number of Americans who have left the work force a phenomenon vividly reflected by the decline in the labor participation rate to just 63.2 , a 35 year low.

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Although the country has grown by around 4 million people since 1961, the rate of increase had simultaneously began to fall during that period, and the population began to decline in 2006, with a fertility rate of 1.43 children per woman.

China s total fertility rate is estimated at around 1.5, implying that the working age population will begin to decline by the mid 2010 s.

And, reflecting the aging of Japanese society, the household savings rate itself will decline dramatically, making it difficult for the private sector to finance annual budget deficits.

True, much of that was due to a sharp decline in imports but even the growth rate of final sales to domestic purchasers rose at a healthy 3.4 pace.

The rate of AIDS diagnosis in the indigenous population increased from 1.5 per 100,000 in 2000 to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2004, whereas the rate of AIDS diagnosis in the non indigenous population continued to decline, to 0.8 per 100,000 in 2004.

The unemployment rate, now at 7 , is slightly lower than it was even at the peak of the last boom, in autumn 2008, and is expected to decline.

From 1929 to 1933, real GDP in the United States fell 30 , and the unemployment rate reached almost 25 , while the depression itself lasted more than a decade all large multiples of the recent decline, and of the somewhat larger decline that the intervention helped to avert.

Partly due to such efforts, as well as to a change in family values, the rate of growth of the world s population, began a long decline, to 1.1 in 2005.

In the US, the inflation rate has also been depressed by the rise in the value of the dollar relative to the euro and other currencies, which has caused import prices to decline. This, too, is a level effect, implying that the inflation rate will rise once the dollar's exchange rate stops appreciating.

Of course, China s savings rate will also decline, but Japan s experience since the 1980 s demonstrates how a sharp fall in investment can generate large and persistent current account surpluses, even when the savings rate is falling and the currency is appreciating.

Comparisons between the 1999 General Social Survey and the 1993 Survey on Violence Against Women point to a decline in the rate of spousal violence against women over time.

If that causes a rise in the departing country s price level, the nominal exchange rate would have to decline further to achieve the same real adjustment.

In terms of the geographical location of place of residence, the decline has been most marked in urban areas, where the current rate is 55 per cent less than that of 1987.

But, looking ahead, the five year plan will cause the saving rate to decline, as China seeks to increase consumer spending and therefore the standard of living of the average Chinese.

During the recent decades what is actually happening in Brazil is an accentuated and systematic decline in the total fertility rate, which decelerated the annual population growth.

Likewise, home prices declined at a very rapid rate of 18.7 in the 12 months to March, which is not meaningfully lower than the 19 fall over the 12 months to February. And the most recent monthly decline corresponded to an annual rate of more than 25 .