Malnourishment has dropped by more than half, from 35 of the world s population to under 16 .

While poverty rates have decreased slightly in recent years, the total number of poor people has risen substantially.

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Migrants used to pay a fee of almost 15 on average to send money back home this has fallen to less than 9 , and in some cases nearly to zero, which should be the universal goal.

Infant mortality rates have also dropped from 10.4 deaths to 8.3 per 1,000 children under one year of age.

French government bond interest rates fell 30 to record lows, less than 50 basis points above German government bond rates.

The proportion of women Provincial Council members even declined slightly, to 29.4 , and is still way below the target figure of 40 by 2004.

Now those projections have been cut to less than 2 , which is too slow to make a dent in the very high rate of unemployment.

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We did it with smallpox, which has now been eradicated, and we are doing it with polio (with less than 100 cases worldwide this year).

Slightly less than 50 respond to this treatment and need to take supplemental vitamin B6 for the rest of their lives.

With global warming, prices will most likely be slightly lower.

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The percentage of people living in poverty in Bangladesh fell from over 70 per cent, in 1971, to less than 45 per cent, in 2002.

In developed countries, fertility declined much earlier than in the developing world and has been very low (below 2 children per woman) since the 1980s.

But the Netherlands, and Austria and, to a lesser extent, Germany and France are faring slightly better.

In just 10 years, the share of state directed bank lending in China has fallen from 92 of new credit creation to less than half.

Less than 50 per cent of the States indicated that such campaigns were evaluated that figure fell to below 25 per cent of States in Central, South and South West Asia and to 10 per cent in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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United Nations access throughout Darfur has decreased to roughly 80 per cent in September and to less than 75 per cent in October (the lowest rate since April 2004).

From 1991 to 2001 and further to 2011 the adherence to Roman Catholicism decreased from 39.0 to 26.8 and then to 10.3 .

The climate is tropical monsoonal, slightly less humid than the average in this part of Indonesia.

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The extreme length of the city was little less than a mile, and the whole intramural area is still thickly strewn with architectural remains.

Yet this category also declined for males from 51 (1996) to 49.9 percent (2003), pointing to the fact that males reach less than the status they desire. While most became employees, a smaller proportion became employers (1.8 to 4.0 percent).

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The population in 2011 was 1.8 million, having grown 7.5 over the previous decade from just under 1.7 million in 2001.

Consequently, the proportion of hungry in the Third World has dropped from 50 in 1950 to less than 17 today, while worldwide incomes have increased more than three fold.

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In 1995 it was reported that 51 per cent of the 5,666 children in pre school enrolment were girls and in 2001 this had decreased slightly to 49 per cent during the same period.

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