How to Use birth rate in a Sentence

birth rate

noun

• The birth rate went down, while the divorce rate and the number of single-person households went up.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
• In fact, in 2017, the teen birth rate in the United States hit an all-time-low.
  — Linley Sanders, Teen Vogue, 23 Apr. 2018
• Because its birth rate crashed in the early 1990s, few are entering the workforce.
  — The Economist, 5 May 2018
• This, combined with the declining birth rate, has affected the enrollments at our 10 school sites.
  — Victoria Le, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
• The researchers found that birth rates decreased among all gestational age groups except one: the 39- to 40-week group.
  — Mark Lieber, CNN, 14 May 2018
• In a state with a relative low birth rate and a poor record of attracting workers from other states, more immigrant labor is one solution.
  — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2018
• At the same time, South Korea’s birth rate was dropping and the government was seeking ways to boost the population.
  — Gawon Bae, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
• Nevertheless, the study found that live birth rates really didn't differ depending on whether a woman got the real or the sham acupuncture.
  — E.j. Mundell, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
• The new totalitarian regime's call to arms is America's falling birth rates.
  — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• What’s also interesting is the mismatch between the declining birth rate and the economy, which is booming.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 17 May 2018
• Given the declining birth rate, the size of the working-age population will shrink as a percentage of the total U.S. population.
  — WSJ, 24 May 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
• The birth rate in women 50 and up has stayed fairly steady.
  — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 31 May 2018
• Perhaps, but the nation’s birth rate is at a record low.
  — Joseph Coughlin, Forbes, 20 May 2022
• The findings come as the annual U.S. birth rate has slowed to a record low.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024