negative growth

基本解释

The IMF is predicting negative growth for the world economy this year, its worst performance in over 60 years.
国际货币基金组织预计今年世界经济为负增长，这是世界经济60年来的最差表现。
Even Libya and Iran do well in this long-term assessment despite very low or even negative growth because they saw very rapid advances in life expectancy and school enrollments.
甚至，增长率很低甚至是负增长的利比亚和伊朗在长期评估上都很不错。这是因为他们在预期寿命以及入学率方面有了长足进展。
Japan and the euro area fell into recession (using the definition of two quarters of negative growth) and America was officially declared to have been in recession since December 2007.
以连续两季度负增长的定义来衡量，日本和欧元区已经陷入衰退，而美国则是从2007年十二月已经正式声明进入衰退。

No matter what happens now, it's already done. Global growth will be deeply negative.

We have just learned the U.S. economy had negative growth in the fourth quarter.
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