Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fertility rate

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.76 in modern English

Syllables: fer-til-i-ty rate
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she followed the current average pattern of fertility among a given group of women and survived through her reproductive years; used as an indicator of strength of population growth.

Example Sentences

"In America the fertility rate of recent immigrants tends to be higher than that of native population."
"In most industrialized countries the fertility rate has dropped well below replacement rate."

Inflected Forms

fertility rates (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

birthrate natality replacement rate

Synonyms

birthrate birth rate fertility natality

Questions

What does fertility rate mean?: The average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she followed the current average pattern of fertility among a given group of women and survived through her reproductive years; used as an indicator of strength of population growth.

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