How to Use birth rate in a Sentence

birth rate

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Definition of birth ratenext
  • This is why childhood infections such as measles are endemic in many parts of the world where the birth rate is high enough.
    — Popular Science, 13 Oct. 2020
  • But the birth rate in the US has held fairly steady—even declining slightly—over the past few decades.
    — Alexandra Ossola, Quartz, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Arizona's birth rate has declined, which may affect the number of incoming students in years to come.
    — Rachel Leingang, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2020
  • China, which has eased its previous one-child policy, recorded its lowest birth rate in 70 years.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The one-child policy was changed to allow two children in 2015 amid a rapidly-shrinking birth rate.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 30 July 2020
  • The birth rate in Sacramento County in 2019 was higher than the statewide rate.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 17 June 2024
  • Over the last four years, the government has spent hundreds of millions to suppress the birth rate of Uighurs and other Muslims.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 June 2020
  • But Zenz pointed out that changes to the natural birth rate should take place over several years or even a decade, not in the space of 12 to 36 months.
    — Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright and Ben Westcott, CNN, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Pacific Islander babies have the second highest premature birth rate in the city at 10.4%.
    — Vanessa Arredondo, SFChronicle.com, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The total chance of a live birth from any batch of eggs also depends on both the number of eggs collected and the number of embryos created: that is called the cumulative live birth rate.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Those decisions follow a consistent pattern in US history: During times of economic stress, the birth rate drops.
    — Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • The live birth rate falls to 4.1% for people over 42 years old, SART explains.
    — L'oreal Thompson Payton, SELF, 24 Apr. 2021
  • This would make 2021’s birth rate an all-time historic low.
    — Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • 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 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

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