birth rate
noun
variants
or birthrate
: the ratio between births and individuals in a specified population and time
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Vietnam, southeast Asia's third-most-populous country, has seen its birth rate dip to 1.91 births per woman in 2024—its lowest level since records began and short of the replacement rate for a third consecutive year.
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George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
That’s as Lowell had the seventh-highest teen birth rate in the state in 1999.
—H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 12 Dec. 2024
In a fascinating article that appeared last week in Science Daily, researchers at Pennsylvania State University found that, while many factors can and do contribute to low birth rate babies, higher regional incomes can actually correlate to higher birth weights among newborns.
—Daniel Markind, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
The teen birth rate has declined continually through good and poor economic times since 1990.
—Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 6 Nov. 2024
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George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
That’s as Lowell had the seventh-highest teen birth rate in the state in 1999.
—H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 12 Dec. 2024
In a fascinating article that appeared last week in Science Daily, researchers at Pennsylvania State University found that, while many factors can and do contribute to low birth rate babies, higher regional incomes can actually correlate to higher birth weights among newborns.
—Daniel Markind, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
The teen birth rate has declined continually through good and poor economic times since 1990.
—Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 6 Nov. 2024
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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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