The preterm birthrate continued its much-need improvement.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

The preterm birthrate continued its improvement, falling for the third straight year.    From Wordnik.com.  [latimes.com - News] Reference

Nor does it explain why the birthrate is lower north of the Canadian border than south of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baby Bust! « Isegoria] Reference

(The U.S. birthrate is 14 newborns per 1,000 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Baghdad's night curfews forcing women to schedule C-sections] Reference

We must at all costs have more people, especially when you consider that our birthrate is falling and will fall gradually.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can We Achieve Canadian Unity?] Reference

Or the out-of-wedlock birthrate, which is really alarming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Herbert: Blacks Caught In Culture of Failure] Reference

This means gender discrimination ends up lowering the nation's birthrate, which is the lowest in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [english.chosun.com : Total] Reference

Palestinian birthrate is 7.8.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: How Republicans Can Win: Keep Making Babies] Reference

No wonder, then, that the birthrate is so low.    From Wordnik.com.  [Justice Between Generations] Reference

The birthrate is declining, total population is declining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heizo Takenaka] Reference

What's harder to imagine is how the low birthrate might reverse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's Harsh Reality Check] Reference

Yet for the first time in our history, the birthrate was falling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The '30S] Reference

I'm surprised that neither mentions birthrate as a possible factor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

Wives churned out new Americans at the highest birthrate in decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [The '50S] Reference

Just to stay even, the state required a five-child birthrate per woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Prop 8, Judge Walker and the Biblical View of Marriage Equality] Reference

They had the lowest birthrate of all of those women that this man studied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story Behind America's Great Migration] Reference

In Ireland, the birthrate peaked late and the strong economy still provides jobs for all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Youth of Europe] Reference

By contrast, the low birthrate threatens Japan's vitality through progressive depopulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's Harsh Reality Check] Reference

The overall birthrate is such that in the next 15 years the population could reach 300,000.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Empire Burden] Reference

Ignoring the birthrate factor doesn't help us find a solution to global income inequalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

Statistics show a remarkable increase in the Welsh birthrate as compared with previous years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31] Reference

Popular subjects include poverty, the dwindling birthrate and the massive influx of foreigners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speaking Out In Singapore] Reference

In that period the birthrate was high, thanks to the propaganda campaign of the communist regime.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL] Reference

Many divided couples postpone having kids, which could accelerate the decline in Japan's birthrate.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Take Thee, For Weekends Only] Reference

And like Japan, Taiwan faces a demographic problem, with a slowing birthrate and little immigration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Investor: Ruchir Sharma] Reference

The out-of-wedlock birthrate has tripled since 1970; it is among the highest in the "developed" world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Values?] Reference

"But this time it's different because never has the rural birthrate been so low," demographer Costa says.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTO THE WOODS] Reference

Eventually the Catholics, with their higher birthrate, will outnumber the Protestants in Northern Ireland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Peace Is Not At Hand In Ulster] Reference

With our declining birthrate, Japan must improve its productivity or the country will be in serious trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [People Power, Japanese Style] Reference

With its aging population and stagnant birthrate, Europe needs the low-wage work force from the Third World.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fortress Mentality] Reference

Some residents theorize that the state, with the nation's highest birthrate, simply has the most children to please.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pin 'Em On] Reference

But with the increase in fertility treatments, the U.S. birthrate of twins has more than doubled in the past 30 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth About Multiple Births] Reference

In many cases, there were other groups that had twice the birthrate as the black women did, and that just struck me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story Behind America's Great Migration] Reference

In cultures where women have power over how many children they have, Potts and Hayden note, the birthrate always falls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everybody Make Love—And War] Reference

With the country's birthrate dropping (currently 1.33 kids per woman), there is simply more money to spend on young ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Busy Little Buyers] Reference

A 50 percent drop in the birthrate has killed entire sectors of the economy in east German cities like Leipzig and Magdeburg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shrinking Cities] Reference

March 1943: To fight a plummeting birthrate, Nazis introduce the death penalty for doctors who perform abortions on Aryan mothers.    From Wordnik.com.  [How The Evil Began, And How It Spread] Reference