First, with its birth rate well below replacement level, Japan s population is aging and shrinking.

China s Incredible Shrinking Economy

China s Shrinking Trade Surplus

As China s demographic dividend disappears, its low end labor market is shrinking, driving up its once rock bottom labor costs and diminishing its rate of return on capital.

However, his options are shrinking rapidly.

Lending dried up and economies started shrinking.

Some government programs are shrinking from lack of demand.

At the current moment, economic well being is shrinking.

In fact, over the next decade, as China attempts to move up the value chain into services and adjusts to a shrinking workforce, its investment requirements will shrink and its investment rate will fall sharply.

Venezuela s circle of friends in the region is shrinking.

Distance is shrinking. Geographical barriers no longer provide easy protection.

The ever shrinking old generation of Saudi kings in waiting.

Due to accelerating industrialization and urbanization, agricultural land is shrinking.

Throughout the world, male female differences in HIV prevalence are shrinking.

The British economy is contracting. Greece s economy has been shrinking for years.

So shrinking export markets will slow down growth promoting structural change at home.

Without action, the economy faces the threat of declining consumption and even shrinking output.

This shrinking of the world has been as sudden as it has been profound.

Some of the recent rise, associated with the shrinking of glaciers, is not caused by human activities, since the glaciers have been shrinking for hundreds of years while human activities became significant only in the last century.

Shrinking ice sheets make the planet darker, so it absorbs more sunlight and becomes warmer.

Austerians believe that only balancing government budgets and shrinking national debts will restore investor confidence.

The comfort level for perpetrators of these crimes is shrinking as the options for prosecution expand.

In short, no nation on this changing, shrinking planet can truly address its own problems in isolation.

A shrinking economy makes private and public debt look less sustainable, which does nothing for market confidence.

In any case, the scope for tax increases is severely limited in an economy that is shrinking quickly.

Savers, on the other hand, may be compelled to save more in the face of shrinking interest income.

Egyptian Amro Ali shares this infographic which shows the ever shrinking old generations of Saudi kings in waiting.

God knows what every female bears , and the wombs ' shrinking and swelling everything with Him has its measure

God knows what every female bears , and the wombs ' shrinking and swelling everything with Him has its measure

I ve been off chemo since 18th of April 2011. I can feel my tumors shrinking and I m still alive! )

They live from paycheck to paycheck often a shrinking paycheck, owing to the decline in hourly wages and hours worked.

And both face serious demographic problems, given shrinking and aging populations, as well as the challenge of Asia s rising superpowers.

Coastlines are shrinking. We ve seen record drought, spreading famine, and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season.

In Europe, for example, raising the retirement age for public pensions and shrinking government employment would curtail welfare state excesses.

Rather than focusing on shrinking the size of existing fleets, European leaders should focus on getting more out of them.

Just as Europe s population is aging and will be shrinking, that of much of the developing world is young and growing.

But the Iranian budget is now running a 15 of GDP deficit, and foreign reserves are shrinking, despite the oil boom.

The globalized environment was marked by shrinking economies and a reduction of employment opportunities, forcing many women into the informal sector.

The effective interest rate, effective annual interest rate, annual equivalent rate (AER) or simply effective rate is the interest rate on a loan or financial product restated from the nominal interest rate as an interest rate with annual compound interest payable in arrears.

With uncertainty plaguing Europe s finances and China slowing, the last thing the global economy needs is a stagnant or shrinking US economy.

With uncertainty plaguing Europe s finances and China slowing, the last thing the global economy needs is a stagnant or shrinking US economy.

The growing role of the government, and the shrinking role of the private sector, almost surely portends slower growth later this decade.

As members of the First Committee are aware, the list of countries still outside the chemical weapons ban is shrinking quite dramatically.

The population growth rate surged as the mortality rate dropped more rapidly than the birth rate.

But they cannot destroy an open society. Only those who govern our democracies can do that, by shrinking our freedoms in freedom's name.