How to Use birth rate in a Sentence

birth rate

noun

• The job of a handmaid is to bear children, as the birth rate has been steadily declining.
  — Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
• The findings come as the annual U.S. birth rate has slowed to a record low.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2024
• For years, Japan has dealt with low birth rates, which exist for a multitude of reasons.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2018
• But after a brief uptick in 2016, the national birth rate has continued to fall.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
• But the efforts to reverse declining birth rates with incentives to have babies haven’t succeeded.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
• Many analysts, however, say those numbers in part reflect the higher birth rates among Muslims.
  — Rishi Lekhi, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2018
• The projections take into account birth rates and death rates, along with migration trends for particular areas.
  — Shady Grove Oliver, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2018
• Extreme poverty is concentrating in these countries because their birth rates are higher than in wealthier nations.
  — Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018
• Statistics released a couple months ago showed that the U.S. birth rate is at its lowest in three decades, with its third annual decline in a row.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 6 July 2018
• By June, though, the birth rate in medical clinics had remained relatively steady, and only a handful of babies have been found left behind.
  — Washington Post, 5 July 2018
• This data differs from that of the CDC, perhaps because birth rate reporting is inconsistent and unenforced.
  — Jennifer Gerson, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2018
• Brusuelas sees fewer people entering the labor force, a consequence of lower birth rates and other demographic changes as the vast baby boom generation retires.
  — Josh Boak, The Seattle Times, 23 Oct. 2018
• 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
• And Italian politicians have no idea how to raise the birth rate.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024