fertility rate

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fertility rate

noun fertility rates

  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.

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noun indicator of population growth

中文生育率 shēngyùlǜ
हिन्दीप्रजनन दर prajnan dar
Françaistaux de fécondité

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@misc{fertility_rate_2026,
  title = {fertility rate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fertility%20rate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}