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Discover LudwigThe phrase "absolute declines" 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 value.
Example: "The report indicated that there were absolute declines in sales figures across all regions last quarter."
Alternatives: "total decreases" or "complete declines".
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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.
Because the rate of decline is modeled on a log scale, equivalent parameters indicate that declines in serum PFOA are proportionate to baseline serum PFOA concentrations, with larger absolute declines in the public water groups that started with higher PFOA concentrations.
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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.
As centre-left commentators such as Hugo Young and Peter Jenkins noted, the country was in danger of seeing relative decline (that is, in relation to our neighbours) mutate into absolute decline.
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