There has been a fall of around half a million members in the last four years.
Overall it corresponds to a fall of six premature babies in every 1, 000 births.
Between 1995 and 1997, the figure was 96 deaths a year - a fall of 72%.
Despite a fall of almost 4%, China remains the country with the single-largest number of students.
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So we have a fall of 0.7 to 0.9% of GDP in tax revenues.
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Holmes said there was a fall of 10% in gold in December, raising the question of why.
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It represents a fall of 9% compared with December, and a 3% fall compared with January 2012.
Despite a 1.1% increase in French, there has been a fall of 5.5% in applications to teach German.
The unemployment rate in Northern Ireland has fallen to 6.5%, a fall of 0.4% from the previous quarter.
The estimate so far is a fall of -0.6% in Q4, this after the -0.3% print in Q3.
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Overall light-vehicle sales hit a 15-year low in September, with a fall of 27% compared with a year earlier.
Egypt's stock market, which had seen a fall of almost 10% on Sunday, recovered some ground on Monday morning.
Strong exports have lifted GDP growth to an expected 1.1% this year, after a fall of 2.6% in 2009.
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The Edinburgh-based business said it knew of "no material reason" for a fall of more than 10% on Friday morning.
The Dow Jones was the steadiest among the majors, closing all but unchanged, with a fall of 0.08% to 15, 294.50 points.
The number of police staff has also dropped by 3, 406 to 65, 992 - a fall of 4.9% - according to the figures.
Covered shopping centres performed better but still saw a fall of 2.4%.
Similar analysis by another research firm, Gartner, found a fall of 11.2%.
That was a fall of 1.6% on the previous year, which was put down to the health scare around PIP breast implants.
Contagion fears are largely blamed a fall of over 20% in the value of the real since the start of the year.
Fifteen were in Glasgow, the lowest figure for the city in 10 years and a fall of 11 on the previous 12 months.
The authority's latest figures show its workforce fell from 19, 958 in September 2010 to 16, 114 over 18 months - a fall of 3, 844.
One encouraging trend for the bank and the economy was a fall of more than a fifth in losses from loans going bad.
There was a fall of 9% in tourists to Edinburgh Castle, the top attraction, and 15% fewer tourists to Linlithgow Palace in West Lothian.
And the number who have retired before turning 65 is down from 1.53 million to 1.38 million - a fall of 10% during 2012.
The trade-weighted exchange rate index for the euro dropped from 114 in December 2008 to 96 in August 2012, a fall of 16%.
This has fallen from 4.8% of GDP in 2010-11 to a forecast 3.6% of GDP in 2012-13 - which is indeed a fall of 25%.
The ONS said its measure of what is happening to shop prices showed a fall of 1.7%, the biggest drop since records began in 1986.
But last week Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent's main rival and a darling of the sector, shocked investors when it announced a fall of 36% in quarterly earnings.
Tuesday's data from the Federal Reserve showed a 0.2% drop in industrial production during the month of May, following a fall of 0.7% in April.
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