birth rate
noun
variants
or birthrate
: the ratio between births and individuals in a specified population and time
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Its birth rate increased slightly in the 2010s after hitting a record low of about 1.2 in 2011.
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Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2025
Elon Musk, who leads the Department of Government Efficiency, has said the low birth rate keeps him up at night.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
Still, the teen birth rate in Mississippi has dropped precipitously from 46.1 in 2012 to 23.6 in 2021, according to state data.
—Sarah Varney, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2025
Oryol oblast in central Russia has made an amendment to an existing government program and will allow schoolgirls to receive payment for becoming pregnant in an effort to boost the country's birth rate, according to a decree signed by Andrei Klychkov, the governor of the region, on March 20.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
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Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2025
Elon Musk, who leads the Department of Government Efficiency, has said the low birth rate keeps him up at night.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
Still, the teen birth rate in Mississippi has dropped precipitously from 46.1 in 2012 to 23.6 in 2021, according to state data.
—Sarah Varney, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2025
Oryol oblast in central Russia has made an amendment to an existing government program and will allow schoolgirls to receive payment for becoming pregnant in an effort to boost the country's birth rate, according to a decree signed by Andrei Klychkov, the governor of the region, on March 20.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 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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