How to Use birth rate in a Sentence

birth rate

noun
Definition of birth ratenext
  • But yet this birth rate is also dropping in these places.
    — New York Times, 5 May 2021
  • So those are the options to reversing the declining birth rate.
    — New York Times, 5 May 2021
  • The birth rate in Japan is going down and the country is going to run out of people at some point.
    — Steve Vassallo, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Amid the myriad stresses imposed by the crackdown, the region’s birth rate fell by a third that year.
    — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Its birth rate has dropped continuously for the past several years -- a trend that has been seen across the country.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
  • California’s birth rate dropped twice as much as the national average.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021
  • The live birth rate falls to 4.1% for people over 42 years old, SART explains.
    — L'oreal Thompson Payton, SELF, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Nationwide, the preterm birth rate has been rising in recent years, following a decline in the early 2000s.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2021
  • China is expected to soon release the results of its once-a-decade census—and the milestone is drawing attention to numbers like birth rate and population growth.
    — Fortune, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Here’s how the birth rate has changed through the year.
    — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The teenage birth rate has been on the decline since 1991.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 1 June 2023
  • But in the past few decades, the birth rate has been falling.
    — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The slight rise in the country’s birth rate marks the first increase in births since 2014.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
  • The birth rate in Michigan has been on a downward trend since the 1950s.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2022
  • South Korea’s birth rate is now the lowest in the world at 0.84.
    — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022
  • This is one of the reasons given for the lower birth rate in the US.
    — Chuck Bolotin, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Baby boomers were named for an uptick in the post-WWII birth rate.
    — CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
  • In Tokyo, the birth rate was even worse, falling to 0.99 for the first time Wednesday.
    — Seamus Webster, Fortune, 6 June 2024
  • Over the past decade, the U.S. birth rate declined by roughly 20%.
    — Asima Ahmad, Fortune, 14 May 2023
  • Perhaps, but the nation’s birth rate is at a record low.
    — Joseph Coughlin, Forbes, 20 May 2022
  • In 2021 the birth rate bounced back even more than predicted.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • But even by those standards, Hong Kong’s birth rate is low.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
  • That's how much the US birth rate fell last year, much of it likely due to the pandemic.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 23 June 2021
  • The state reported the fifth highest teen birth rate in the country for 2020.
    — al, 11 July 2022
  • That's in line with the trend across the country, which saw the teen birth rate reach a historic low in 2022, according to the CDC.
    — The Arizona Republic, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The father of ten has been vocal on Twitter about raising the birth rate.
    — Ebony Williams, ajc, 7 July 2022
  • Its demand is set by the nation’s birth rate, and the market has been shrinking for years.
    — Colin Lodewick, Fortune, 14 May 2022
  • But this prediction is not based on a linear birth rate.
    — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2023
  • One broad factor: The birth rate in Salt Lake County continues to fall year over year.
    — Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 May 2022
  • During the same time period, the birth rate rose 12% for women 45 and older.
    — Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 18 May 2024

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