But the number of people on welfare has plunged to 4.4 million, down 60 percent.

The number of visitors has plunged to 15 million from more than 20 million.

In Indiana their numbers plunged within a year from 350,000 to 15,000.

Between 1996 and 2000, the number of welfare recipients plunged by 6.5 million, or 53% nationally.

The number of new full-time freshmen plunged 23 percent in the fall, to 1,131.

And this year, the number of people on public assistance plunged to its lowest point since 1967.

The number of welfare recipients has plunged 35 percent since the measure was signed into law.

The number of farms would plunge from 1.9 million to one million as a result.

And the number of passengers has plunged since the attacks, creating uncertainty about just what the future needs will be.

The number plunged to 284,157 two years later in 1917.