Notably, there has been a significant increase in the proportion and gross numbers of elderly Venezuelans ( aged 65 and up ), as well as a corresponding drop in the total fertility.

Meanwhile, the national birth rate, after continuing to drop for a time, began to rebound in the 1990s and currently the country's fertility rate is close to the replacement level.

A simplification of the DTM theory proposes an initial decline in mortality followed by a later drop in fertility.

A mortality decline was not observed in the U. S. until almost 1900 — a hundred years following the drop in fertility.

At present, the total fertility rate is high in poor countries with poor health infrastructure, but it tends to drop to replacement levels or lower once a nation reaches a per capita income of roughly $ 10, 000.

If you will be using your car more than fifteen days, which isn't all unlikely, the daily rates drop quite sharply to $.86 a day for the Fiat 500 and to an infinitesimal $.30 a day for the Fiat 2100 Station Wagon.

That same year the University of California's Dr. Laurance Kinsell, timing oxidation rates of blood fats, stumbled onto the discovery that many vegetable fats cause blood cholesterol levels to drop radically, while animal fats cause them to rise.

Birth and death rates of Japan since 1950, with the sudden drop in hinoeuma year ( 1966 )

After the severe economic troubles of the early 1990s, brought on by a drop in the vital fish catch and poor management of the economy, the Faroe Islands have come back in the last few years, with unemployment down to 5 % in mid-1998, and holding below 3 % since 2006, one of the lowest rates in Europe.

Many voice systems use even lower data rates, but below 5 kbit / s voice quality begins to drop rapidly.

As birth rates drop and life expectancy increases an ever-larger portion of the population is elderly.

The motivation for this policy change was to finance World War I ; one of the results was inflation, and a rise in the gold price, along with the corresponding drop in international exchange rates for the pound.

However, the apparent meaning of this correlation is called into question by the fact that prescriptions of Prempro and Premarin fell dramatically in Canada as well, but no similarly dramatic drop in Canada's breast cancer rates was observed during the same time period.

For example, in a recession interest rates may drop, and the drop in interest rates tends to increase the value of investment grade bonds ; however, a recession tends to increase the possibility of default in speculative-grade bonds.

This method is often used with Nickel-Cadmium cells which have a large drop in voltage at full charge but the voltage drop is much less pronounced for NiMH and can be non-existent at low charge rates, which can make the approach unreliable.

According to the 2001 study of crime trends in New York by George Kelling and William Sousa, rates of both petty and serious crime fell suddenly and significantly, and continued to drop for the following ten years.

Gradually, they enabled additional companies to enter the market of postal deliveries of mail with a weight up to half a kilogram ; this was done so that they could compete with the governmental mail company allowing the postage rates to drop.

* Interest rates drop to almost zero percent in the long run

It is claimed that as a result, interest rates would drop to almost zero.

" Dish has chosen to be the first distributor to drop The Weather Channel rather than pay the standard industry rates others in the industry have already agreed to pay ", the Weather Channel said in a statement.

The NYPD installed it in order to deter crime that was occurring in the area however crime rates did not appear to drop much due to the cameras.

Roscommon was severely affected during the great famine, with one of the highest death rates per population recorded in the whole of Ireland, during this period the population of Roscommon suffered a 31. 5 % drop.

* According to the NCHRP Synthesis 310, multiple studies exhibited no statistically significant drop in crash rates after traffic cameras were installed.

This influx occurred after an economic downturn caused property values and interest rates to drop.

There are many different prizes ranging from £ 25 to the top prize of £ 1, 000, 000 ( between 2005 and 2009, there were two £ 1m prizes each month and the minimum prize was £ 50, but prizes were reduced after the large 2009 drop in interest rates ).

This sea level drop and the associated unconformity in North America separate the Mississippian subperiod from the Pennsylvanian subperiod.

In some Spanish-speaking countries ( those in Latin America ), a woman marrying a man may drop her mother's surname and add her husband's surname to her father's surname using the " de " ( of ) preposition.

Captain America escaped and in the process used his shield to sever one of Skull's arms, causing him to drop the cube.

During cycles of global cooling, such as the most recent ice age, enough sea water became concentrated in the great ice sheets that covered North America and Europe, so that the subsequent drop in eustatic sea levels exposed shallow sea-floors that have subsequently re-flooded.

At the time of its opening, it was billed as " The Highest and Fastest Waterfall ride in America " featuring a drop.

of Minnesota-In September 2005, the University of Minnesota agreed to cease its partnership with the " Minnesota Faith Health Consortium, a partnership with Luther Seminary, which is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, and Fairview Health Services ," and to cease teaching " courses on the intersection of faith and health " and FFRF agreed to drop its lawsuit on those same issues.

Following a visit to Germany in 1936, Lindbergh wrote: " While I still have my reservations, I have come away with great admiration for the German people ... Hitler must have far more vision and character than I thought … With all the things we criticize he is undoubtedly a great man …" Although America First avoided any appearance of antisemitism and voted to drop Henry Ford as a member for this reason, Ford continued his good friendship with Lindbergh, who visited him in the summer of 1941.

The album turned out to be a huge success in America ( singles Dreams and Linger ), and is one of only 5 albums to completely drop out of the British charts only to return at number 1.

He showed no surprise when told that America would drop a bomb of enormous power on Japan.

In topography, prominence, also known as autonomous height, relative height, shoulder drop ( in North America ), or prime factor ( in Europe ), categorizes the height of the mountain's or hill's summit by the elevation between it and the lowest contour line encircling it and no higher summit.

The term " pikelet " is also used in Australia and New Zealand for a similarly flat cake, of the type that in Scotland and North America would be called a pancake and in England a Scotch pancake, girdle or griddle cake, or drop scone.

However, the change in attitudes towards Hard Rock and the media treatment of so-called " 80s ' Hair bands " meant that sales were poor in America and Europe, causing the group to drop any plans they may have had to tour anywhere other than the Far East.

The drop in temperature was felt all over the world, and was most likely caused by a severe eruption of a volcano in South America.

The Zeon forces then launched Operation British, attempting to drop a depopulated colony cylinder onto the Federation's Jaburo HQ in South America.

My conviction that the animal recently exhibited in the Zoological Gardens is one of those hybrids with jaguar-like spots is a conclusion deduced from a combination of circumstances, partly from a knowledge of the recent importation by Mr Bostock from America of a number of animals for the exhibition at Earl's Court, partly from a clue supplied to me by Mr Carl Hagenbeck, who predicted almost to the letter the outcome of the sale, partly from overheard remarks let drop at the auction at Aldridge's, and finally from the fact that the animal was knocked down to Mr Bostock for a sum representing ten times its market value.

The falls, at 350 metres ( 1148 ft ) high, are among the highest in eastern North America, and drop from the plateau above ( aka Big Level Plateau ) into Western Brook Pond.

* Hurricane Marco ( 1996 ), formed in the Caribbean Sea and, while never making landfall, was large enough to drop heavy rain on Central America and Hispaniola, causing flooding and mudslides that killed eight

Several severe droughts brought about this drop in the town's fortunes, with a consequent emigration to northern Spain, Europe and South America.

Eventually, as Clear Channel-owned sports stations began to drop ESPN Radio in favor of the new network, its affiliate base grew rapidly, from 50 stations to more than 280 stations and XM Satellite Radio throughout North America.

In 2005 for the 2006 model year, changes in SAE engine testing procedures resulted in a slight drop in the amount of stated power for the V8 to, and Lexus Link telematics was offered in North America.

Through these efforts, U. S. exporters were encouraged to drop over a thousand accounts in South America during the first half of 1941.

It was built in 1999, and features a first drop and top speed of, and is currently one of the most popular rides at Six Flags Great America.

From 1871, the value of silver depreciated relative to gold, due to the drop in demand for silver in the mints of Europe and North America, as those countries changed over to the gold standard.

He further shows cunning through his later successful attempt to convince France to drop its objections to America dumping its out of date nuclear submarines in the Indian Ocean by pretending to have a French ancestor and an appreciation for French culture.