Sami's health has sharply declined.

On the contrary, ODA has declined.

The number of social assistance recipients has declined.

Meanwhile, the US share of global output has declined.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

While the epidemiological statistics are alarming, the death rate has declined in recent weeks, from 7.6 to 3.6 .

The maternal mortality rate in Bangladesh has declined sharply by more than 66 over the last two decades.

The market declined by 97 .

Poland has also led on European defense (though it declined to take part in the military intervention in Libya).

The proportion of hungry people in developing countries has declined significantly from 23.2 in 1990 92 to 14.9 today.

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.

The victim declined to press charges.

Vlissingen declined during the 18th century.

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.