The phrase "actual decrease" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a real or measurable reduction in quantity, size, or value.
Example: "The report indicated an actual decrease in sales compared to the previous quarter."
Alternatives: "real reduction" or "genuine decline".
The question of substantive interest in this context is: how much of the change is actually due to the improvement of public health suggesting the actual decrease in diarrhoea prevalence and how much is due to a compositional change in the population distribution, especially by maternal education, access to clean water and sanitation, household wealth index?
The actual decrease may be a bit smaller because of chronic overproduction by OPEC members, which would soften somewhat the blow to the global economy.
For resonant structures the actual decrease depends on the transducer location, and fluctuates between zero and twice this value.
The increase -- some doctors call it an epidemic -- has been linked to drugs that stimulate ovulation and techniques like in vitro fertilization, each countering an actual decrease of spontaneously conceived twins.
This amount of overproduction means that even if cartel members were to reduce their official output by one million barrels a day, the actual decrease might equal only half that.
Some of these studies had measured changes in bone density and extrapolated a protective effect against fractures from that; others tracked an actual decrease in rates of broken bones.
However, Raman spectra show a smaller shift in the diamond peak than that before the test; this may imply an actual decreasing in the coating adhesion, or it could relate to graphitization in the wear test.
"We have very limited actual decreases in budget".
But in these two instances, shorter lengths of stay did not coincide with actual decreased costs.
Next, we compared the actual changes to the expected changes for each district to determine whether the actual decreases in mortality and health facility use were greater than would have been expected due to baseline trends.
While it is possible that the completeness of CHW data collection improved over time, this would mean that actual decreases in child mortality were even greater than our estimates suggest.
