fertility rate
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2.8
- noun
- /fərˈtɪləti reɪt/
- Specialized
:
tasa de fertilidad
- The falling fertility rates in several countries prove one thing: that family planning programs work.
- total fertility rate
- low fertility rate
- high fertility rates
The only way out of those two bleak futures is to get our fertility rate up.
- The only way out of those two bleak futures is to get our fertility rate up.
- And the fact is that the difference in death rates is much smaller than the difference in fertility rates.
- And by the way, East Asia, South Korea is actually I think the lowest and, and what we, what I look at is the total fertility rate.
- And you already know, you've talked this quite a bit of the hormonal system and, and you know, fertility rates, both men and women are falling off the Cliff.
- So sperm counts of males are declining, fertility rates in females declining because they have these AI sexual relationships.
Examples
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At a time when the US fertility rate is at a historic low, is Vance right to worry?
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Between 1982 and 1991, Sweden's total fertility rate rose sharply.
Academic text (1992) -
We want to explain why Israel has a high fertility rate despite being rich.
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However, you probably know that fertility rates worldwide are down.
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For example, the total fertility rate is 1.6 in Russia, 1.4 in Poland, and 1.2 in South Korea.
Academic text (2012) -
And as standards of living improve, fertility rates tend to decrease.
Academic text (1997) -
By 2011, Italy's total fertility rate had dropped to 1.42.
Academic text (2012) -
The total fertility rate in 1975 was estimated at 7.2 (see Table 3).
Academic text (2015) -
Despite significant pronatalist measures, the fertility rate of indigenous Qatari women has gradually declined since the early 2000s.
Academic text (2015) -
The fertility rate in many countries has been affected by changing social norms and family planning policies.
Synonyms
17
2.5
Number of live births per 1,000 people in a year
13
3.7
The number of babies born alive for every 1,000 people each year
7
3.2
The number of babies born each year for every one thousand people
The number of live babies born per 1,000 people each year
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'fertility' denotes births/ability to produce offspring and 'rate' denotes a measured amount per unit, so together they straightforwardly mean the measured number of births per population. This construction is cross-linguistically common (e.g. Spanish 'tasa de fecundidad', French 'taux de fécondité'), making it immediately derivable for learners who know both constituents.
Etymology
Fertility rate comes from a simple farming picture: fertility means how well land produces crops and rate means how many are produced. So people used that image to talk about how many babies are born in a group each year, and the phrase now means 'the number of live births in a population'.