Sentence examples for a birthrate from inspiring English sources

One result: a birthrate of 1.38 children per woman.

Barring war, famine, epidemic or disaster, a country needs a birthrate of 2.1 children per woman to hold steady.

Encouraged by a birthrate that suggests they could eventually overtake Turks as the country's main ethnic group, Kurds have turned to politics to pursue full rights.

Sweden, at the forefront of women's liberation, boasts a female employment rate of 70 percent and a birthrate of about two children per woman, the highest in Europe along with Norway and France.

More worrisome, experts say, is that a lack of openings — especially at more affordable public nurseries — could convince more women that they should forgo having more than one child or lead them to have no children at all, depressing a birthrate that is already among the lowest in the world.

In a comparison group consisting of 16 countries that had populations of over one million and a birthrate equal to or higher than China's in 1970, the average birthrate dropped to 22 per thousand in 1998 from 35.6 per thousand in 1970.

Spain, like many of its partners in the European Union, is a rich country with a fast-aging population, a low birthrate, a growing aversion to menial jobs and an uneasy proximity to lands of poverty.

The population is getting older because of a low birthrate, a characteristic Japan shares with many of the world's richest nations.

From an international perspective, and unlike other developed countries, Israel has a young age structure, with a high birthrate and a small fraction of elderly population.

Like the rich nations of the West, South Korea also has a low birthrate and, as a direct result, a rapidly aging population.

For decades, the South Korean government tended to look the other way, seeing a high birthrate as an impediment to economic growth.