Nor did they ever cause an absolute decline in economic activity.

The rate of economic growth in Britain slowed down and for a period was in absolute decline.

Between 1976 and 81 it went into absolute decline.

Measured in these terms, there is little doubt that we have suffered an absolute decline.

The most common definition is the absolute decline of manufacturing employment.

First of all, are we talking of relative or absolute decline?

So far, we have focused on the different implications of relative and absolute decline.

Unless we turbocharge our economic system, we will face not relative decline but absolute decline.

No fewer than eleven of Spain's fifty provinces saw an absolute decline in population over the century.

The interval census years 1961-1971 witnessed the first absolute decline in the number of individuals claiming Ukrainian mother tongue (361,496 to 309,860).