fertility rate

Noun

 * 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.
 * In most industrialized countries the fertility rate has dropped well below replacement rate.

Translations

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 * Finnish: hedelmällisyysluku
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 * Malay: nisbah kesuburan
 * Polish: dzietność