fertility
IPA: fɝtˈɪɫʌti
noun
- (uncountable) The condition, or the degree, of being fertile.
- (countable) The birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year.
- The average number of births per woman within a population.
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Examples of "fertility" in Sentences
- If fertility is not a medical problem, then dunno what is.
- Today’s fall in fertility is both very large and very fast.
- Mexican fertility is declining so fast we may run out of them.
- The streams are so low in fertility that the few that do survive don't do well.
- Well for those with a mere grade school education, fertility is a major component of public health.
- After all, look at when we had a huge jump in fertility, the 20 year 'baby boom', a time of very low immigration!
- — If They Don 't Look at It Notwithstanding a few oldsters sitting in fertility clinics with their young wives, baby boomers are pretty much done with reproduction.
- People such as Steyn that talk about collapse usually refer to demographic and cultural factors, not economic ones (Steyn also does not seem to understand that white-non Hispanic fertility is as low in the US as in most Europe).
- _ They are thus both encouraged and enabled to increase this surplus produce by a further improvement and better cultivation of the land; and _as the fertility of the land has given birth to the manufacture, so the progress of the manufacture reacts upon the land, and increases still further its fertility_.
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