Does Metrics Portal Recruiting Cumulative - Nb candidates, adjust when profiles deleted?

We are creating automated tasks to delete candidates and wondering if the Metrics portal will reduce numbers(Recruiting Data Cumulative, Nb Candidates), when candidate profiles are deleted? And if the type of deletion matters with Metrics cumulative numbers?

Also, is it different for the different kinds of deletion?

• Delete (all data can later be restored)
• Delete (nonidentifying data can later be used for reporting purposes)
• Permanently delete

We are asked yearly to provide numbers of candidates in our system for Insurance purposes and we pull those numbers from Metrics. Want to confirm that those numbers will reduce once we start deleting inactive/ incomplete profiles/old profiles etc.