Definition of fertility rate Fertility rate

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What does fertility rate mean?

Noun
fertility rate - the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
		birthrate, birth rate, fertility, natality

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fertility rate (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.