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natality

natality

9.2
The number of live babies born per 1,000 people each year
  • noun
  • /nəˈtælɪti/
  • Specialized
translation icon : natalidad
  • Research shows that increased access to healthcare can positively influence natality rates in rural areas.
  • natality and mortality

Examples

  • Filiative belonging, which may as an idea bear a resemblance to Hannah Arendt's idea of natality, includes not just our blood ties, however, but also succumbing to the traditional authority of family bonds and genealogical structures.

    Academic text (2004)
  • In 1989, the National Center for Health Statistics changed how race was recorded for natality and fetal death.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Examples of extreme surfeits of mortality over natality are, to be sure, familiar from human history.

    Academic text (2005)
  • I'm writing a master's thesis on the implications of personalization and filtration on Web 2.0, and I am going to use mainly Arendt's focus on the importance of plurality and natality in this context.

    Blog text (21)
  • In 1990, the natality of Serbs dropped to 11.4 percent, while that of the Croats was 12.5 percent, that of Muslims was 18.4 percent, and that of Albanians was 28.8 percent.

    Academic text (2002)
  • For example, while elk natality and mortality fluctuate on an annual basis, elk migrations change over decadal timescales (Lemke et al. 1998).

    Academic text (2002)
  • In 2021, the natality rate in the city was recorded at 15 live births per 1,000 people.

  • The government implemented new policies to improve natality and encourage families to have more children.

Synonyms

birth rate
vsnatality
  • Specialized
17 2.5

Number of live births per 1,000 people in a year

is the demographic ratio term used for that same yearly measure
fertility
vsnatality
  • Specialized
13 3.7

The number of babies born alive for every 1,000 people each year

focuses on the ratio measure rather than the general idea of birth occurrence
birthrate
vsnatality
  • Specialized
7 3.2

The number of babies born each year for every one thousand people

is the demographic ratio term typically used in official statistics
fertility rate
vsnatality
  • Specialized
3 2.8

The number of babies born per 1,000 people in one year

is the demographic ratio term used for that same yearly measure

How High

natality
  • Specialized
9.2
birth rate
  • Specialized
17 2.5

Surface Forms

natality singular
natalities plural

Morphology

natality = natal (semi-transparent) = natal + ity

Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ity' to the adjective 'natal'; the relationship to 'birth' is clear but the specific technical sense 'birth rate' is a specialized demographic use.

Etymology

Natality comes from the root nat-, which means 'born'. You can see the same root in words like native and nativity, both about being born in a place or time, so natality is simply the number or rate of people being born in a place.