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fertility rates

fertility rates is the plural of fertility rate.

Meaning of fertility rate

Noun

fertility rate (plural fertility rates)

  1. 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.
    • In America the fertility rate of recent immigrants tends to be higher than that of native population.

Questions about fertility rates

What is fertility rates the plural of?
Fertility rates is the plural of fertility rate.

Words near fertility rates in the dictionary

  1. fertility clinics
  2. fertility cult
  3. fertility drug
  4. fertility drugs
  5. fertility rate
  6. fertility rates
  7. fertility tourism
  8. fertilizability
  9. fertilizable
  10. fertilization
  11. fertilizational

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