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Although its official defence budget is only 1% of its GDP and over the past decade has shrunk by over 3% in nominal terms, in real terms it has fallen by more like 1%.

Things are slightly better on the canal network, which continues to benefit from a restoration programme; but capacity has still shrunk by over a third in the last 20 years.

The number of newspaper readers under the age of 24 has shrunk by over a third since 1990, while those over 65 has fallen by only 6% (see chart).

Harvests of vegetables and cereals have shrunk by over a third since 1990: in one province surveyed by the FAO, some 300,000 hectares (1,170 square miles) of land have simply been abandoned because of the collapse of the irrigation system and the lack of pesticides, fertilisers and machinery.

Greece's GDP has shrunk by over 25percentt since 2008.

Analysts, as well as ministers, are keenly awaiting the fourth quarter gross domestic product figures later this month to see if the economy did finally return to growth after six consecutive quarters of contraction which together saw the economy shrink by over 6%, its worst performance since the 1920s.

After a dry season and poor harvest, Zimbabwe's GDP shrank in 1995 by over 3%; a year later, after good rains, it had shot up 6%.Higher commodity prices are also helping.

But satellite studies of the North Pole ice cap, at the peak of summer, show that it has shrunk by about 6percentt over the last 20 years.

However, the Israelis have still fared much better than the Palestinians, whose economy has shrunk by around half over the past three years, according to Palestinian officials and aid agencies.

The world's largest living organism has shrunk by about half over the past 30 years as a result of climate change, ocean acidification, pollution and crown-of-thorns starfish, which prey on coral.