| Defenders of Wildlife warns that drilling will likely disturb the historic birthing grounds of oxen and caribou, resulting in lower birthrates. |
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| A quick visit to the WHO web site reveals a chilling relationship between those countries with falling birthrates and elevated suicide rates. |
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| Countries like Italy, Spain and Germany are seeing birthrates fall as dramatically as ours, and a workforce going gray as quickly as ours. |
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| In fact, in modern, industrialized countries, feminism is correlated to higher birthrates. |
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| Six of the seven states with the highest divorce rates in 2007, and five of the seven with the highest teen birthrates, voted red. |
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| The figures cover population variations, births and deaths, birthrates and death rates, and life expectancy. |
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| Nevertheless, infant mortality remains high and this, along with poor investment in human and social welfare, has kept birthrates high. |
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| Today, 55 percent of the world's people live in countries whose current birthrates guarantee indefinite future growth. |
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| Soaring birthrates, high infant mortality, alcoholism, and declining life expectancy among males add up to a regionwide social crisis. |
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| For example, there was high growth in the 1950s, but a decline in the 1970s, due probably to both assimilation a decline in birthrates. |
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| In an age of falling birthrates, baby food is not an easy business to be in. |
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| Today, they are most concerned about shrinking birthrates and ageing populations. |
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| Declining enrolments are largely a reflection of declining birthrates within the province. |
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| Universities faced with declining birthrates in Canada turn to international students to help keep a critical mass for their academic and research programs. |
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| Slowing growth rates and higher median ages have led to concern among analysts and policymakers in much of the industrialized world about falling birthrates and population decline. |
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| Population growth has slowed in the state in the last decades, due to lower birthrates and the exodus of migrants, mostly men. |
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| One common factor in Vietnam and Russia, another country where birthrates have cratered, is that over the past couple of decades both societies have lost what was once a very strong sense of national mission. |
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| Delayed childbearing also means lower birthrates nationally. |
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| The Arab population also grew during this period, due to a combination of high birthrates, British recruitment of workers from Syria, and workers from the Trans-Jordan lured by higher wages. |
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| One reason for the decline in birthrates is the elevation of education levels, especially among women. |
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| Youth outmigration, low immigration and falling birthrates are in the headlines so regularly that we accept them as the new normal. |
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| His argument has nothing to do with the question of the relative generosity of the social safety net, unless he wants to make some kind of case that social democracy has restrained European birthrates. |
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| Lower birthrates and an aging population mean that the population is likely to grow at a slower pace in the future. |
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| More or less everyone has pointed out that lower birthrates are the inevitable and universal outcome in societies where women achieve education, prosperity and control over their own lives. |
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| In Quebec for example, where birthrates are the lowest in Canada, the Aboriginal population of working age will grow three to five times as fast as the non-Aboriginal population. |
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| Birthrates fell everywhere, as children were postponed until families could financially support them. |
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