Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ratio of total live births to total population in a specified community or area over a specified period of time. The birthrate is often expressed as the number of live births per 1,000 of the population per year.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The proportion of births to the number of inhabitants of a town, district, country, etc., generally stated as so many per thousand of the population.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; usually expressed as birthes per 1000 population per year.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
ratio oftotal live births to totalpopulation for a specificcommunity ornation in a specifiedperiod ; often expressed in births perthousand peryear
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
- noun the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
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Examples
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Nor does it explain why the birthrate is lower north of the Canadian border than south of it.
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(The U.S. birthrate is 14 newborns per 1,000 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.)
Baghdad's night curfews forcing women to schedule C-sections 2007
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Meanwhile our birthrate is still frighteningly low, and several hundred thousand women of marriageable age have no chance of getting husbands.
As I Please 1946
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We must at all costs have more people, especially when you consider that our birthrate is falling and will fall gradually.
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The preterm birthrate continued its much-need improvement
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The preterm birthrate continued its improvement, falling for the third straight year.
latimes.com - News 2010
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(Bearing this in mind, it’s ironic that the Japanese birthrate is far below replacement level; every Japanese child that is never conceived, never born is a vote against the bright future displayed in Japanese SF.
Japanese SF and English-language original SF « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009
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Somalis brought Somalia to “near-extinction” (by the way, I would bet Somalia’s birthrate is higher then any western country, so much for “extinction”).
Somalia Ruined: Intervention Fails Again « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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The beauty of demographic change via birthrate is that it’s not readily perceptible in the short term, unless you start walking the streets of Southall and Cirencester counting pushchairs.
Archive 2005-05-01 Laban 2005
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The beauty of demographic change via birthrate is that it’s not readily perceptible in the short term, unless you start walking the streets of Southall and Cirencester counting pushchairs.
Swamp Thing Laban 2005
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