Last week there were about 250 fewer new cases in Sierra Leone, including a drop of about 100 in Freetown.
That included a drop of 75percentt in services imports, where insurance payments and air fares are counted.
Shipments to other Asian countries were off by much more, including a drop of 29percentt in exports to South Korea.
Plus employment fell by 34,000, including a drop of 64,000 in the number of full-time workers.
In spite of the country's growing relationships with China and India, exports fell in 2015, including a drop of about two billion dollars to the E.U., its biggest trading partner.
Take Japan, which is further along the ageing process than most; it has seen six successive annual population declines, including a drop of 212,000 last year, a new record.
World prices have fallen as much as two-thirds in the last three years — including a drop of 10 percent during last year's fourth quarter alone.
Manufacturing was off one-tenth of 1percentt, including a drop of two-tenths of 1percentt in the output of durable goods, items expected to last more than three years.
The risk of dying in a traffic accident has dropped nearly 18percentt since 2005, including a drop of 7percentt in the first half of this year, according to preliminary statistics released Friday by the Transportation Department.
Heavily dependent on exports, South Korea has been battered by six months of falling exports, including a drop of 20percentt for July and August, compared with the same two months last year.
Revenue from outpatients who received rehabilitation therapy fell 17percentt from the second quarter, including a drop of $23 million, primarily because of compliance with a Medicare payment rule, the company said.
