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Discover LudwigThe phrase "absolute decline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is a complete or total decrease in a particular metric or condition.
Example: "The company experienced an absolute decline in sales over the last quarter, leading to significant financial challenges."
Alternatives: "total decrease" or "complete drop".
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By 2060, it said, the EU's population will be in absolute decline.
From that point on, Forrester expects the PC to go into gentle, absolute decline.
His more compelling case, and the country's bigger worry, concerns absolute decline.
And before long it could more than offset production gains, leading to an absolute decline in China's grain harvest.
This absolute decline in nonparticipating unemployed suggests that people are more willing (equivalently, less unwilling) to collect unemployment benefits than they were before the recession began.
America may not be in absolute decline, but a simple system based on whether nation-states are up or down in some sort of pecking order certainly is.
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The biggest absolute declines occurred in poor and low-to-middle-income countries.
Bangladesh, Nepal, Ethiopia, Malawi and Liberia are among the 10 countries that recorded the largest absolute declines in neonatal mortality rates from 1990 to 2013.
Absolute declines in population followed in both the 1980 (−7.9%) and 1990 (−3.0%) data.
But these impressive achievements have not translated into any absolute declines in materialization on the global scale.
Syphilis prevalence declines were about double the relative and absolute declines in HIV prevalence.
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