English-Spanish translations for fertility rate

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