"upwards trend" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe anything that is steadily increasing over time. For example, "The stock market has seen an upwards trend over the past month."
There is an upwards trend in the number of women engineers, Teena says.
Annual Mauna Loa results are awaited by climate scientists worldwide, and show a steep upwards trend.
Most of Australia can expect a hotter-than-average December, with temperatures being forced up by both regional climate patterns and a global upwards trend.
The news there is positive: a clear upwards trend, with 'proper' electric cars finally visible on the chart starting last year.
In our findings, both of these measures indicate a slight linear upwards trend and qualitative data is brought in to contextualize the quantitative findings.
"Once exceptional events have been stripped out, there has been a small upwards trend in insolvencies since 2016, reversing several years of falling insolvency numbers.
"Over time, there will be upwards trends on strength gains, endurance, precision," she tells TechCrunch.
"This is a reminder that while trends (rates of rise) fluctuate, real world temperatures are still moving progressively upwards". Trends give us an indication of what real world temperatures will be in the future, averages reflect past temperature trends.
This culminates into technical and scale inefficiencies, notwithstanding the upwards trends in percentage shares of total health expenditure in GDP and total health expenditure in total government expenditure in Nigeria over time (Figure 1).
In a separate study, Sader et al. [ 21] reported good tigecycline activity against clinical isolates collected in the USA between 2006 and 2012, including MDR phenotypes, with no upwards trends in tigecycline resistance reported.
He also added that the company is growing nicely, boasting 1 million registered users and graphs clearly showing an upwards traffic trend (Quantcast).
