birth rate
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2.5
- noun
- /bɜrθ reɪt/
- Specialized
:
tasa de natalidad
- We calculated these cause-specific mortality and birth rates for all races and ethnicities.
- live birth rate
- high birth rate
- low birth rate
What we see is that death rates were high and birth rates were also high.
- What we see is that death rates were high and birth rates were also high.
- When I combine that with the data on birth rates, it gets terrifying because birth rates are plummeting.
- So as soon as, as soon as any given civilization reaches a level of prosperity, the birth rate drops.
- What was the what was the birth rate during baby boomer generation?
- Like we're we're way below replacement in terms of birth rate, the abortion stats.
- And did I send you that Stephen Shaw episode about the birth rate crisis stuff?
- And so now the the birth rates are slowing.
- We want to reduce the population, the birth rate, they'll say.
- And he obviously is perhaps working to single handedly manage the decline in birth rates that he speaks of.
- I mean, they've a birth rate crisis, you know, so they're, their population is shrinking.
Examples
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In others, due to low birth rates, governments are even paying people to have children.
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First, Sweden has a high birth rate compared to other European countries.
Academic text (1992) -
- Nine months later, the birth rate went up like crazy.
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Efforts to raise the birth rate always fail.
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In mining districts where there was almost no work for women, the birth rate was the highest of all.
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Then at some point, culturally, the birth rate drops as well.
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Women in their late twenties have the highest birth rates, and birth rates differ little among social classes.
Academic text (1992) -
When I combine that with the data on birth rates, it gets terrifying because birth rates are plummeting.
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I mean, they've a birth rate crisis, you know, so they're, their population is shrinking.
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The country is facing challenges because its birth rate has significantly declined over the past decade.
Synonyms
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
3
2.8
The number of babies born per 1,000 people in one year
The number of live babies born per 1,000 people each year
Antonyms
- Specialized
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2.7
The number of people who die in a population each year shown per 1,000 people
How High
- Specialized
- Specialized
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2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'birth' (the event of a baby being born) and 'rate' (a measured frequency per unit), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes the number of births per population unit. This noun-noun compound follows a common cross-linguistic pattern (e.g., taux de natalité, tasa de natalidad), making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Birth rate comes from a simple counting idea: birth means babies being born and rate means how often or how many. People count how many live babies are born for every 1,000 people in a place, so the phrase means 'the number of live births per 1,000 people'.