birth rate

British  

noun

1. the ratio of live births in a specified area, group, etc, to the population of that area, etc, usually expressed per 1000 population per year

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birth rate Scientific  

1. The ratio of total live births to total population in a specified community or area over a specified period of time. The birth rate is often expressed as the number of live births per 1,000 of the population per year.

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That’s not great news for a woman like Waters who hopes, probably sincerely, that men and women can get past differences in the interest of getting that birth rate up.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

Beginning childbearing at 35 instead of at 27 leaves fewer years to decide to have additional children if one desires—this drives birth rate declines, too.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

And even when accounting for these people, Germany has an ageing population as the baby-boomer generation increasingly retires, and the nationwide birth rate stays stubbornly low.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

But despite a low birth rate the population has grown nearly 30 percent over a decade, driven largely by foreigners.

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

The birth rate of Japanese in California is more than three times as high as that for the total of California, and more than double that in Japan.

From Japan and the California Problem by Toyokichi Iyenaga