Fertility rate

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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.

    "In America the fertility rate of recent immigrants tends to be higher than that of native population."

  2. 2
    the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year wordnet

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