Sentence examples for birth decline from inspiring English sources

The speed of these two processes changes throughout the overall birth decline, so that two phases can be distinguished: a first phase of rapid decline in third births and a second phase of comparably fast increase in childlessness.

Whereas the predominant theoretical interpretations of the birth decline discuss a general postponement and lack of births and give plausible explanations especially for emerging childlessness (such as individualisation, value change or opportunity costs), there is a tendency to ignore the decrease of third births as a second crucial driving force.

Our theses are: The explanation of the birth decline can only be accurate if it differentiates between two parity specific changes: (1) The number of women remaining childless strongly increases and (2) the number of women having three or more births strongly decreases, while the parities one and two remain roughly stable.

The switch from production of γ to β globin begins in utero and results in the linear decline of HbF in the fetal RBC population, such that HbF levels of 50 95% at birth decline to <5% by three months [2].

The number of 15- to 19-year olds giving birth declined globally between 1990 and 2011.

From 1965 to 1982, the percentage of U.S. infants who die at birth declined at a relatively constant rate, the New York Times said in a report on a new federal study by the U.S. Public Health Service.

In the captive Galago colony studied by Schaefer and Nash [49], an intermembral index of about 60 at birth declined to 57 at 100 days, reaching 55 at full growth.

We have shown that the relationship between previous miscarriage and preterm birth declined in Scotland over the period 1980 2008.

The association between a prior history of miscarriage and the risk of preterm birth declined in Scotland over the period 1980 2008.

The child sex ratio at birth declined from 964 in the 2001 census to 830 per thousand males in the 2011 census (12).

The authors find no statistically significant effect on firm deaths, though, supporting the familiar notion that incumbents benefit while new firm births decline (p.12).