How to Use birth rate in a Sentence

birth rate

noun

• The report breaks down the numbers by states and cities, assigning them grades based on local preterm birth rates.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
• The premature birth rate among black women is 49% higher than for white women.
  — cleveland, 25 Nov. 2019
• Secondary education for girls in developing nations may well bring down birth rates in the long run.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 Nov. 2019
• But as the population of France has aged and birth rates fallen, experts say the current system is not financially viable.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 12 Dec. 2019
• But the thin margins of childbirth, together with declining birth rates and rising costs, have forced many labor-and-delivery units in smaller hospitals to shut down.
  — Emily Bobrow, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2019
• Howell said other states have previously seen a decline in their birth rates, and demographers forecast that Alaska would follow suit.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2020
• For example, Barreca noticed a 5 percent increase in birth rates on days that were over 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2019
• Neighboring South Korea, too, has struggled for years with an aging population, shrinking workforce, and low birth rates.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 25 Dec. 2019
• The country’s population is slowly shrinking, a byproduct of a falling birth rate, producing a relatively small pool of recruits.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2020
• Even with a shrinking labor force and a declining birth rate, the country rejects immigrants of a non-Hungarian ancestry.
  — Youyou Zhou, Quartz, 31 Dec. 2019
• 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 city’s preterm birth rate also is at a 13-year high.
  — Joe Guillen, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Natalism, where the state tries to increase the birth rate, is back.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2020
• 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 birth rate in Sacramento County in 2019 was higher than the statewide rate.
  — Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 17 June 2024
• In 1997, when Labour last won a general election with a landslide in Britain, the birth rate was falling.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024