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Definition of Fertility rate
1. Noun. The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year.
Definition of Fertility rate
1. Noun. 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. ¹
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