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The average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she followed the current average pattern of fertility among a given group of women and survived through her reproductive years; used as an indicator of strength of population growth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- In America the fertility rate of recent immigrants tends to be higher than that of native population.
- In most industrialized countries the fertility rate has dropped well below replacement rate.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: birthrate, birth rate, fertility, natality
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rate
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Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Albanian:
shkallë e pjellorisë
— indicator of population growth
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Chinese Mandarin:
生育率
(shēngyùlǜ)
— indicator of population growth
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Finnish:
hedelmällisyysluku
— indicator of population growth
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French:
taux de fécondité
— indicator of population growth
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Hindi:
प्रजनन दर
(prajnan dar)
— indicator of population growth
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Indonesian:
angka fertilitas
— indicator of population growth
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Macedonian:
стапка на плодност
(stapka na plodnost)
— indicator of population growth
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Malay:
nisbah kesuburan
— indicator of population growth
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Polish:
dzietność
— indicator of population growth
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Serbo-Croatian:
plodnost
— indicator of population growth
