English-French translations for fertility rate

• taux de fécondité
  Le taux de fécondité de remplacement est de 2,16. The replacement fertility rate is 2.16.
  De nombreuses études ont mis en évidence un lien solide entre l'éducation et la fécondité: le taux de fécondité a tendance à diminuer à mesure que le taux d'alphabétisation augmente. Many studies have found a strong correlation between education and fertility; as literacy improves, fertility rates tend to decrease.
  On peut s'attendre, avec le progrès de l'urbanisation dans le monde et, je l'espère, l'augmentation de la croissance, à une diminution du taux de fécondité. One can expect, with global urbanisation and, hopefully, increased growth figures, that the fertility rates might go down.

Definition 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

Examples

• In America the fertility rate of recent immigrants tends to be higher than that of native population.
• In most industrialized countries the fertility rate has dropped well below replacement rate.

Related words

• fertility
• infertility
• antifertility
• overfertility
• fertility factor
• soil fertility
• low fertility
• sub-replacement fertility
• female infertility