How to Use birth rate in a Sentence

birth rate

noun
  • The death rate is now higher than the birth rate.
    — Mark Dent, HubSpot, 8 May 2026
  • The birth rate has been falling since the start of the decade.
    — Bloomberg.com, 19 Sep. 2017
  • But in the past few decades, the birth rate has been falling.
    — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But the birth rate is still falling, Levine said.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The birth rate is falling, and the world is ending.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 13 May 2026
  • Net migration and the birth rate fell last year.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 13 June 2026
  • There is no optimal birth rate.
    — Sarah McCammon, NPR, 27 Oct. 2025
  • And Italian politicians have no idea how to raise the birth rate.
    — The Economist, 29 June 2019
  • For teenagers age 15 to 19, the birth rate was down 7% last year.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Katira said she's noticed the birth rate shift in her own office.
    — Sarah McCammon, NPR, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Natalism, where the state tries to increase the birth rate, is back.
    — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Remote work and the birth rate The birth rate has been falling for decades.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Last year’s rate is still worse than the city’s preterm birth rate from five years ago, which was 11%.
    — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Nov. 2025
  • And there's no reversing the birth rates and death rates behind the decline.
    — The Bulletin, OregonLive.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • In 2021 the birth rate bounced back even more than predicted.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The Western birth rate, of course, is plummeting too.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • Another reason is the birth rate.
    — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 12 May 2026
  • Taken together, this doesn’t bode well for the nation’s birth rate.
    — Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Although birth rates have plunged, two-thirds of Bangladeshis are under the age of 35.
    — The Economist, 21 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 teen birth rate has fallen 70 percent since 2007.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • And that obituary has been authored in slow motion by the declining birth rate of the last two decades.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 20 June 2026
  • In fact, in 2017, the teen birth rate in the United States hit an all-time-low.
    — Linley Sanders, Teen Vogue, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Due to a low birth rate and an aging society, fewer workers will be able to support retirees.
    — Claudia Ciobanu, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Officials have cited the nation's record-low birth rate as the driving factor.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The state reported the fifth highest teen birth rate in the country for 2020.
    — al, 11 July 2022

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