Sentence examples for below the rate needed from inspiring English sources

For years, Germany's fertility rate has trended below the rate needed to keep the population stable.

That is below the rate needed for the natural replacement of the population, making Singapore increasingly dependent on foreign labor and raising the specter of an aging population and higher social welfare costs.

Meanwhile, the overall fertility rate in Britain has been rising: it is now around 2, just below the rate needed to keep the population stable over the long term.

Top officials at the Federal Reserve Board, who have been fixated on the employment situation, have made it clear that they believe that jobs are being created more slowly than in any previous recovery, and well below the rate needed to bring down unemployment.

In Europe and North America and in much of Latin America and East Asia, mortality rates have fallen dramatically and fertility rates have fallen to, or below, the "replacement rate" needed to stabilize population.

In 1998 91% of two-year-olds were immunised, but by 2004 that had fallen to 80%, far below the 90% rate needed to keep the disease under control.Reluctance to vaccinate stems from a health scare surrounding MMR, a three-in-one vaccine designed to protect children from measles, mumps and rubella.

Sometimes it is easy not to be troubled by the loss of a few percentage points on your rate, but slip below the interest rate needed to break even and your money will buy you less in a few years' time than it did when you started to put it to one side.

"We're still very much below the output growth rate needed to absorb the slack in labor market," said Prajakta Bhide, a research analyst for the United States economy at Roubini Global Economics.

In addition, our fertility rate is now at 1.5 births per woman, which is well below the 2.1 replacement rate needed to maintain a stable population.

In order to reach that goal the thermal generation rate needs to be reduced below the photon generation rate.

That is a little below the rate of 2.1 needed to replace the population with no migration, but still unlikely to lead to a national withering any time soon.