birth rate

British

noun

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

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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The U.S. birth rate continues to fall from previous decades.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Since we are unlikely to want to reduce our life spans, they concluded, we should work together to reduce the global birth rate by half.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

A total of 265 couples have married after meeting on an AI-powered dating app launched by the Tokyo government in 2024 to lift Japan's low birth rate, according to official data.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

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

Remembering that a prediction, however scientific, cannot at best be more than a possibility, we shall venture to forecast the future of the Japanese birth rate in California.

From Japan and the California Problem by Toyokichi Iyenaga

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