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birthrate
[ burth-reyt ]
noun
- the proportion of births to the total population in a place in a given time, usually expressed as a quantity per 1000 of population.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of birthrate1
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Example Sentences
In the past year, approximately 19,500 immigrants arrived and the country's birthrate came in at 1.8 percent.
So beefier benefits mean that you need more investment to make up for the falling birthrate--and instead get less of it.
So what we have is something good and welcomed by most, a falling birthrate, and no clue as to why.
The decreased birthrate in Taiwan is, along with an increase in infertility, often attributed to marriage delays.
We need not worry therefore lest the race shall die, because of a decreasing birthrate as we see it on the physical plane.
Statistics show a remarkable increase in the Welsh birthrate as compared with previous years.
Wargentin, in Sweden, first called attention to the periodicity of the birthrate in 1767.
During the entire century a decline of the birthrate was noticeable.
The decline of the birthrate then was confined entirely to the legitimate births.
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