Sentence examples for population dropping from inspiring English sources

It has also been aging rapidly, with its school-age population dropping from 800 to 550 since the 1970's.

But with the prison population dropping, some sheriff's departments that run county jails are stuck with oversized centers with empty bunks.

But since the 1950s, drilling of wells led to a diminishing water supply, shrinking farmable land, and to the already diminutive population dropping by 10% a year since 2010.

The decline in New York so far is small, with the state's prison population dropping from 71,750 inmates on Feb. 1, 2000, to 70,283 inmates yesterday, a decrease of 2percentt.

Emptiness is the reigning feeling when walking through the city, which has lost more than 40percentt of its residents since the fall of the wall, with the population dropping below 40,000 people from more than 70,000.

With the state's crime rate dropping for eight straight years and the prisoner population dropping for the first time in 23 years, the critics say, there is no need for yet another state prison.

The population dropped; poverty increased.

Ireland experienced its sharpest population drop during the 19th-century potato famine when the population dropped sharply from 6.5 million.

In the thirty years before the calamity, the population dropped by more than thirty per cent.

The average population dropped to 357 in 2001 and fell to 287 early this year.

In that time the neighborhood's population dropped to 4,877 from 5,353 and its complexion changed.