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BIRTHRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does birthrate mean? 

BIRTHRATE (noun)
  The noun BIRTHRATE has 1 sense:

1. the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per yearplay

  Familiarity information: BIRTHRATE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BIRTHRATE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

birth rate; birthrate; fertility; fertility rate; natality

Hypernyms ("birthrate" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)


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