Task: Question Understanding
Input (English): Passage: Kannada language is the official language of Karnataka and spoken as a native language by about 66.54% of the people as of 2011. Other linguistic minorities in the state were Urdu (10.83%), Telugu language (5.84%), Tamil language (3.45%), Marathi language (3.38%), Hindi (3.3%), Tulu language (2.61%), Konkani language (1.29%), Malayalam (1.27%) and Kodava Takk (0.18%). In 2007 the state had a birth rate of 2.2%, a death rate of 0.7%, an infant mortality rate of 5.5% and a maternal mortality rate of 0.2%. The total fertility rate was 2.2.
Question: Was the birth rate or death rate higher in 2007?
Output (English): span