fertility rates

A form of fertility rate — The average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she followed the current average pattern of fertility among a given group of women and survived through her reproductive years; used as an indicator of strength of population growth.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of fertility rate
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