birth rate
noun
variants
or birthrate
: the ratio between births and individuals in a specified population and time
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Clearly, this correlates nearly with the birth rate exploding; 16 players born in 1948 represented England, including Ray Clemence and Trevor Brooking, the highest figure for any single year since 1901.
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Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
Years of low immigration, combined with Japan’s plunging birth rate, have left gaping holes in the workforce as the elderly population swells and the younger population shrinks – pushing the government to seek out more international tourists and migrant workers in recent years.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025
The initiative began serving nearly 500 families and flourished, with 92% of the babies born full-term and 96% born at a healthy birth rate in the Strong Babies program, outpacing the average rates for Nashville as a whole.
—Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
The share of births to women under 25 is set to fall in every world region amid ongoing birth rate fears, new graphs show.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
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Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
Years of low immigration, combined with Japan’s plunging birth rate, have left gaping holes in the workforce as the elderly population swells and the younger population shrinks – pushing the government to seek out more international tourists and migrant workers in recent years.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025
The initiative began serving nearly 500 families and flourished, with 92% of the babies born full-term and 96% born at a healthy birth rate in the Strong Babies program, outpacing the average rates for Nashville as a whole.
—Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
The share of births to women under 25 is set to fall in every world region amid ongoing birth rate fears, new graphs show.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for birth rate
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birthrate
noun
birth·rate
-ˌrāt 
: the number of births for every hundred or every thousand persons in a given area or group during a given time
Medical Definition
birth rate
noun
variants
or birthrate
: the ratio between births and individuals in a specified population and time often expressed as number of live births per hundred or per thousand population per year
called also natality
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