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natality

American  
[ney-tal-i-tee, nuh-] / neɪˈtæl ɪ ti, nə- /

noun

  1. birthrate.

natality British  
/ neɪˈtælɪtɪ /

noun

  1. another name (esp US) for birth rate

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of natality

1885–90; < French natalité; natal, -ity

Example Sentences

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Later he was branch chief of natality statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics.

From Washington Post • May 10, 2020

James, it’s concerned with questions of natality and futurity, the miracle that new life represents in an ever more frightening and unjust world.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2018

"To come back to the population it was before 2002, based on their natality rates, it could take nearly a century to recover," Wrege said.

From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2016

Slowly tallying mortality and natality figures, Dobyns continued to be impressed by what he found.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Will a high tuberculosis mortality, then, be conducive to great fertility, or do we have to fear that a decrease of the natality will be the result of energetic measures against tuberculosis?

From Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians by Sutherland, Halliday G.

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