Where do you want to measure from though, 1945, 1965, the arrival of varroa in the early 90s, the arrival of seed treated crops late 90s.
Again it is another case of lies, damned lies and statistics.
You can show what you want to show up to a point.
Uk colony numbers are of course lower now than in 1945 but considerably higher than in 2008.
The pollinator org PDF has a lot of the stats from Europe and worldwide.
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