The number of displaced persons has slightly decreased.

Since the last report, the number of female ministers in Brazil has decreased.

The number of drug abusers in the target area has decreased by 50 per cent.

In 2001, the number decreased to 108,202.

The number of Jerusalem entry permits issued by the Israeli authorities to UNRWA staff members has decreased.

Why has violence decreased?

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

Although the number of conflicts has decreased during the last 10 years, today's conflicts tend to be protracted.

The number of prostitutes from other countries (mostly the former Soviet republics) illegally staying in Estonia has decreased.

However, the overall number of members of the EAKL has also decreased from 65 000 to 48 467.

While the number of large scale attacks on civilians in the Sudan has decreased, grave protection concerns persist.

From the highest level of 276 deaths in June 1995, the number of deaths has decreased each month.

Moreover, while the number of militia attacks on villages has decreased since last year, they continue in significant numbers.

68. Torture has not decreased.

72. It is noted with satisfaction that the number of complaints on the grounds of human rights violations has decreased.

My income has decreased ten percent.

In the wake of this concentrated activity, the number of trafficked victims has decreased substantially during 2004, according to Police estimates.

Since 1988, the number of polio cases annually has decreased from an estimated 350,000 to some 1,263 confirmed cases in 2004.

Since the study year of 1990 91 the number of vocational schools and secondary special education establishments has decreased by 14 .

Despite a reduction in the number of active missions, the workload has not decreased, since a number of accounting actions continue while missions are in the liquidation phase.

In the Republika Srpska the number of children born in extramarital community has also decreased in the period from 1996 to 2002.

The number of unrepresented Member States is decreased from 16 to 15.

In comparison with the preceding year the total number of accidents at work has decreased by almost 100 cases or 7 , however, the number of lethal accidents has undergone a dramatic increase (see the table).

The number of confirmed deaths, civilian and combatant alike, due to violence has also decreased substantially over the course of the last year.

Development assistance has decreased, and the number of French military personnel (the major contributor to GDP at almost 60 per cent) is diminishing.

While the number of hospitals has decreased since independence (due to the closure of ethnic hospitals , the number of clinics and health centres has been increasing (e.g. from 215 clinics in 1992 to 246 in 2000).

However, in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the number of children born in extramarital community has decreased in the period from 1996 2001.

The number of items allocated to each of the Main Committees, with the exception of the Fifth Committee, has decreased or remained fairly stable.

The main reason for those delays is that while the actual number of communications has increased, the number of professional staff dealing with communications under the Optional Protocol has decreased in each of the past three years.

He noted that while the number of refugees worldwide had decreased, the number of internally displaced persons continued to rise.

Hence, even though the number of United Nations troops on the ground has decreased significantly in recent years, the number of operations has remained mainly the same and, consequently, the work of the Office of Operations has remained as demanding as ever.

From 2000 to 2004, the number of people accessing social assistance decreased approximately 19 percent.

Likewise, the number of assassinations decreased from 225 to nine in the past two months.

Although the number of teenage pregnancies has stabilised over the last three years and even decreased in 2003, preventing teenage pregnancies continues to be a priority.

The number of occupants per household has decreased from an average of 2.47 in 1980 to 2.35 in 1985 and then to 2.1 persons in 1995.

Following the voluntary repatriation of some 80,000 Malian refugees in 1995 and 1996, the number of refugees in neighbouring countries has decreased from 150,000 to 70,000.

According to UNHCR, their number has decreased from some 30,000 in 1992 to 3,500 at present, with most of those remaining in the process of repatriation.

Nevertheless, according to information provided to the Special Rapporteur, the number of trials and sentences has been smaller and the length of sentences has decreased considerably in comparison with previous years.

Since 1996, the payment of assessed contributions has decreased considerably.

The total number of abortions and legally induced abortions per 1000 women in fertile age has decreased by more than a half in the past 10 years.

As a matter of fact, the report indicates that the number of internally displaced persons from Abkhazia has decreased from around 250,000 to little more than 200,000.

Statistics on the number of motor vehicles stolen in the country showed a decrease since 1994, while the percentage of recovered vehicles has decreased constantly since 1992.

Infant mortality has decreased by over 60 per cent since 1980.

For 2004 2005, the percentage has decreased to 86 per cent.

Since the number of staff had decreased, consultancy and all other related expenses should also decrease accordingly.