fertility rate

1. 1.

   the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year

   Synonymsbirthratebirth ratefertilitynatality

   Broaderrate

Questions about fertility rate

What does fertility rate mean?

fertility rate means "the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year".

What is another word for fertility rate?

Close synonyms include birthrate, birth rate, fertility, natality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fertility rate a common word?

fertility rate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.