FERTILITY RATE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

birth rate; birthrate; fertility; fertility rate; natality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("fertility rate" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

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