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FERTILITY RATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fertility rate mean?
• FERTILITY RATE (noun)
The noun FERTILITY RATE has 1 sense:
1. the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
Familiarity information: FERTILITY RATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
birth rate; birthrate; fertility; fertility rate; natality
Hypernyms ("fertility rate" is a kind of...):
rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)
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