Sentence examples for decrease in population from inspiring English sources

Because of a decrease in population upstate, New York loses two Congressional seats this year.

(Source: UN population division) Between 2010 and 2050, 45 countries are expected to decrease in population size.

Hunting and poaching have also contributed to the decrease in population.

Any number below 1.0 indicates a decrease in population, while any number above indicates an increase.

The decrease in population was also a reason for Louisiana's losing a Congressional seat and an electoral vote in 2012.

All eight islands showed a decrease in population, with four showing a dramatic decrease of up to 50 per cent.

Among these eight were the only two UK cities to experience a decrease in population between 2002 and 2012: Burnley's population decreased by approximately 1,000 while further north, Sunderland lost over 7,000.

In 2012 nearly one-fourth of American counties experienced a natural decrease in population, and 85% of those counties were rural.

The state, which had been slowly losing population for decades, experienced a decrease in population of about one-tenth in the last decade of the 20th century.

In Buffalo, which suffered a natural decrease in population for the first time in 2005, business is flourishing at a chain of 14 funeral homes run by Anthony Amgione Jr., whose grandfather began the family business in 1927 from his own home.

Such a decrease in population usually leads to a reduction of the urban area.