Sentence examples for births down from inspiring English sources
There were 10.6 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, down from 10.7 a year earlier.
The infant mortality rate in the city also hit a record low, 6.7 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, down from 6.9 a year earlier.
By 2011, however, the rate had dropped to 6.05 deaths of babies less than 1 year old per 1,000 births, down from 6.87 in 2000.
Improvements in health care reduced the infant mortality rate to 20 per 1,000 live births, down from 40 per 1,000 live births in 2002.
That is what has happened around the world: In India, women now average 2.6 births, down from about six in 1950.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last week that in 2006 the rate of infant deaths in the United States fell to 6.71 per 1,000 live births, down from 6.86 the previous year.
And of course, the crowd is practically giving birth down here.
The official interstate plan ning agency said that not even a steady drop in the birth rate —down from 21.5 births per thousand people in 1960 to 16.5 in 1968 — was significantly slowing rise in population.
By 2002, births were down to two children per family.
Births are down to two children per woman, from six and a half at the time of the 1979 revolution.
