Sentence examples for population has been declining from inspiring English sources

Hof's population has been declining for decades, but the Jewish population has grown.

The population has been declining since the late 1960s because of mechanization of the mines.

Russia's population has been declining for two decades; more recently so has Germany's (and Japan's).

Because of the modernization of agriculture in the period since World War II, Saskatchewan's rural population has been declining.

(The justices used varying numbers in describing the number of affected prisoners. California's prison population has been declining).

Mecklenburg West Pomerania's population has been declining since 1987, owing to both low birth rates and net out-migration.

(The prison population had been declining despite a sharp increase in arrests).

Some viewed the devastation as symbolic of the future of this region of expansive beauty and a harsh climate, whose already sparse population had been declining since the 1970s.

The borough's overall white population had been declining since the construction of the Cross Bronx Expressway (created by the city planner Robert Moses) in the 50s, leading to a period of what historians term "white flight".

Rural populations have been declining for the past half-century, but the suburbs have been exploding.

Brown trout populations have been declining in Switzerland since 1980 [32].