fertility rate
English
Noun
fertility rate (plural fertility rates)
- 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.
- In most industrialized countries the fertility rate has dropped well below replacement rate.
Translations
indicator of population growth
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