Child mortality has been reduced by almost half.

Poverty was cut in half from 50 to around 25 of the population, while extreme poverty fell by two thirds.

The top tax rate on wage income was cut in half during her tenure as prime minister, falling from over 80 when she took office to 40 .

Colombia s homicide rate, for years one of the highest in the world, has almost halved since 2002.

Liver, lungs, heads, tails, kidneys, testicles, all of these things which are traditional, delicious and nutritious parts of our gastronomy go to waste. Offal consumption has halved in Britain and America in the last 30 years.

In the next two five year periods, however, the number fell to 26, and in the most recent period (2000 2004), there were only 21.

By 2003 it was down to 15,000.

(Second half of 2004 first half of 2005)

Overall, China s trade surplus has decreased by 36 in absolute US dollar terms, and has dropped by more than half (53 ) in proportion to GDP over the past two years.

Sami got down.

The number of Water Boards has now been reduced to 48.

But the ongoing depreciation of the US dollar which has fallen by almost half since the Bretton Woods system collapsed in 1971 together with the rising volume of US government debt, undermines the purchasing power of investors in US government securities.

In modern terms, the net present value of the total debt (federal and state) was reduced by about one half if one were to apply the usual exit yield of 9 .

With real GDP growth around 4 in the first half of the year (though it did fall below 2 in the third quarter), the first arrow has already hit the bull s eye a performance worthy of an A .

The income tax rate was decreased to 21 by January 2008.

By the end of 2004, this amount had dropped to 30 million.

The number of civilian jobs declined from 44,062 to 43,415.

Please get down.

As a result, wages were cut by half.

This is why, when Daraya's residents arrived in rebel held Idlib, they were greeted as heroes.

However, during the mandate period this number dropped to 2,300.

But, thanks to intensive vaccination campaigns, there were only 58 cases of polio in the entire country last year down 70 from 2011.

In other words, holding duration was nearly halved.

And, while the personal saving rate rose to 5 of disposable income in the first half of 2011 from the rock bottom 1.2 low hit in mid 2005, this is far short of the nearly 8 norm that prevailed during the last 30 years of the twentieth century.

Five million years later, the number of genera had dropped from an earlier peak of about 600 to just 450.

The number dropped below 70,000 in 2002 and was just above 60,000 in 2010.

Following the arrest and transfer of three of these accused, the number had been reduced to fourteen.

That figure had decreased slightly, however, between 2002 and 2003 for both women (0.5 per cent decrease) and the overall population (1.4 per cent decrease).

Funding to the Ministry of Education has been reduced and many schools have been transferred to the Supreme Education Council.

Preliminary statistics suggest that this figure has now fallen by half.

In 2010 the number was 63, one of the lowest in the decade.

The second episode dropped to 1.6 million viewers, with a 1.0 share and 1.4 million viewers in the key demo.

The port's use and traffic declined significantly, causing a decline in the city's economy.

Also, the annual tribute of the Persian side was reduced from 200 loads to 100 loads.

Following the arrest and transfer of three of these accused, the number has now been reduced to fourteen.

In 2004, construction of subsidized housing fell to levels lower than those of 1999.

There was a notable drop in participation by athletes from the United States in events held in Cuba.

US oil demand has fallen 8 as consumers tighten their belts, and electricity demand in China is down by 10 as energy intensive industries cut production. A smart response to the crisis can perpetuate these trends.

Take a square. Fold it in half, fold it in half, fold it again, until it gets long and narrow, and then we'll say at the end of that, that's a flap.

Aconcagua () is the highest mountain outside of Asia, at .

Half a Loaf Growth

Target 2. Halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

For two years, sea levels have declined.

In Istanbul alone, the Greek population decreased from 65,108 to 49,081 between 1955 and 1960.

During the second half of the 20th century, department stores followed the trend of moving into the suburbs.