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Expressed per 1000 population per year
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birthrate
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE high ▪ It takes too long, and high birthrates themselves inhibit development. ▪ Demographers estimate that about 60 percent of recent urban growth has resulted from high birthrates in the cities themselves. EXAMPLES ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the ratio of total live births to total population for a specific community or nation in a specified period; often expressed in births per thousand per year
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year [syn: birth rate , fertility , fertility rate , natality ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
birthrate \birthrate\n. the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; usually expressed as birthes per 1000 population per year. Syn: fertility, fertility rate.
Usage examples of birthrate.
In fact, previous data from the regime indicated that both the population growth rate and the birthrates had begun to decline in the 1980s, indicating that Iraq was not an exception to this rule.
Even in the oil emirates, the rising birthrate and the long-term decline in oil prices, coupled with the oversized welfare systems they put in place during the fat years of the 1970s, are straining their finances and in fact have driven Saudi Arabia into debt.
Clan matrons have long complained about the climbing summer birthrate, but do they act to stop it?
Moreover, in times of war and strife it is normal to see a decrease in the birthrate because men are not at home.
At the very least, the United Nations found no evidence of the enormous increase in birthrate that Baghdad claimed and that would have been necessary to account for such a large population growth despite so many claimed deaths.
Technological advances came along so fast that Earth had no trouble in feeding everyone even though the birthrate continued along an exponential curve.
What we also have to face is that any species that is unable to regulate its birthrate becomes subject to regulation by death in one form or another.
Bhor home planet was still glacial, even though the Bhor had reluctantly removed some of the glaciers as civilization and the birthrate increased.
As African birthrates continue at high levels and slums like Chicago, Washington, and Conakry proliferate, diseases spread rapidly and experts worry that viral mutations and hybridizations might conceivably result in a form of the AIDS virus easier to contact than the present strain.
Its anti-gay plank blamed gays for everything from "moral corruption" in the arts to falling birthrates in the Industrialized North.
And the answer to that is that either (a) the birthrate will continue to decrease, or (b) the death rate will increase, or (c) both will take place.
With a low birthrate, the labor shortage draws outsider fems like me, seeking work but also disrupting the peace with our strange faces and voices, our unpredictability.
Economic growth and literacy levels have risen in inverse proportion to declines in the birthrate.
At a dinner party at Michelle’s, I watched a Sierra Leonean official, a young and intense man with friends high up in the military regime, react angrily, his eyes flaring, as Michelle told him: “It may be that in future years Western aid will be given on the basis of a government’s ability to get its birthrate down and to stop destroying its rain forests” rather than on the basis of a government’s friendliness to us and of its hostility to communism.
The experts say it's a natural swing from the abnormally high rates of the forties and fifties, but match the percentage of Passaic girls in Neosho against the falling birthrate, and I bet it would fit like Tracy's bathing suit.