birth rate
noun
variants
or birthrate
: the ratio between births and individuals in a specified population and time
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However, more than a year later, people still face high uncertainty about the economy and a stubbornly persistent birth rate that doesn’t bode well for the future.
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Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
Kindergarten enrollment was down by 2,000 this year, which could be the result of Miami-Dade County’s declining birth rate.
—Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
The twin forces of a falling birth rate and an aging population are converging at a time when the country faces enduring structural fiscal and labor market challenges.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
But the dip doesn’t come in the wartime periods of 1914-18 or 1939-45, when the birth rate was low.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
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Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
Kindergarten enrollment was down by 2,000 this year, which could be the result of Miami-Dade County’s declining birth rate.
—Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
The twin forces of a falling birth rate and an aging population are converging at a time when the country faces enduring structural fiscal and labor market challenges.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
But the dip doesn’t come in the wartime periods of 1914-18 or 1939-45, when the birth rate was low.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Birth rate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/birth%20rate. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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birthrate
noun
birth·rate
-ˌrāt 
: the number of births for every hundred or every thousand persons in a given area or group during a given time
Medical Definition
birth rate
noun
variants
or birthrate
: the ratio between births and individuals in a specified population and time often expressed as number of live births per hundred or per thousand population per year
called also natality
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