Yields of wheat and oil seed rape, for example, have flatlined since 1998, with the UK's rising population meaning more has to be imported.
Data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development more or less bears this out: in the Netherlands antidepressant usage has risen by less than 25% since 2001 and has flatlined in the past five years.
In Britain, architects suffered much worse, as the demand for their services shrank by as much as 40%, the RIBA reckons.Related topics Visual arts Industrials Sector Design Architecture Construction industrySince 2012, even as Europe's construction sector began to grow again, the demand for architectural services has flatlined.
Revenues in their audit and tax divisions flatlined, forcing them to seek new business lines to keep growing.
Despite debt-fuelled investment of roughly $40 billion a year, production has flatlined at around 2m barrels a day (b/d) in the past three years.Most damaging, says Adriano Pires, an energy consultant in Rio de Janeiro, "Petrobras is being misused as a tool of macroeconomic as well as industrial policy".
Although GDP dipped a little at the end of last year, the economy has avoided a recession and the unemployment rate has flatlined at 5.8%, below its long-run average of 7%.
Ministers say that the giving of time and money in Britain has "flatlined", but the country still scores well by international standards.
There, total vehicle-kilometres travelled began to plateau in 2004 and fall from 2007; measured per person, growth flatlined sooner, after 2000, and dropped after 2004 before recovering somewhat (see chart).
On April 1st the UAE allocated $60m to the UN, the first time it has given such a large chunk of the money it has set aside for Syria to the international body.UN agencies hope the co-ordination sparked by Syria will extend to other humanitarian disasters, where Western donations have flatlined.
It has flatlined since then.
France and Germany, in contrast, have flatlined.
