Sentence examples for population has been shrinking from inspiring English sources

The population has been shrinking for years.

Meanwhile, the region's population has been shrinking, with most of the drain coming from within the city limits.

One factor is that Japan has actually been aging for a long time, and the share of childbearing-age women in the population has been shrinking.

Despite the international ivory trade ban in 1989, the African elephant population has been shrinking dramatically, with hundreds of thousands killed in the last decade.

In both Germany and Japan, the working-age population has been shrinking for more than a decade, and the rate of decline will accelerate in coming years (see chart).

There are now about 900 monk seals in the Leewards, and the population has been shrinking for 25 years, making the seal among the world's most imperiled marine mammals.

The population had been shrinking since the 1960s.

Its economy and population had been shrinking for years and hopes of a turnaround fell as the verdant volcanic islands in the South Pacific withered into banking desert.

Even before the earthquake, the country's Roman Catholic population had been shrinking — now an estimated 60 percent of Haitians identify with the church, down from 90 percent — and at the funeral, many of the local priests looked stunned and tired.

No place in the country has been shaped by immigrants as much as New York, starting in the 17th century, with the first European, African and Caribbean arrivals, and extending to the end of the 20th century, when another surge of immigrants brought new life to streets where the population had been shrinking for decades.

Although it may seem counterintuitive, periodical cicada populations have been shrinking and even disappearing.