"fertility rate" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "birthrate"
        },
        {
          "word": "natality"
        },
        {
          "word": "replacement rate"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "In America the fertility rate of recent immigrants tends to be higher than that of native population."
        },
        {
          "text": "In most industrialized countries the fertility rate has dropped well below replacement rate."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "average",
          "average"
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          "pattern",
          "pattern"
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          "reproductive",
          "reproductive"
        ],
        [
          "indicator",
          "indicator"
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        [
          "population",
          "population"
        ]
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shēngyùlǜ",
          "sense": "indicator of population growth",
          "word": "生育率"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "indicator of population growth",
          "word": "hedelmällisyysluku"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "indicator of population growth",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "taux de fécondité"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "indicator of population growth",
          "word": "angka fertilitas"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "indicator of population growth",
          "word": "nisbah kesuburan"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "indicator of population growth",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dzietność"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "fertility rate"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fertility rate"
}

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    {
      "word": "birthrate"
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    {
      "word": "natality"
    },
    {
      "word": "replacement rate"
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      "form": "fertility rates",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "In America the fertility rate of recent immigrants tends to be higher than that of native population."
        },
        {
          "text": "In most industrialized countries the fertility rate has dropped well below replacement rate."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
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        [
          "average",
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        [
          "pattern",
          "pattern"
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          "reproductive",
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        ],
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          "indicator",
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          "population",
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shēngyùlǜ",
      "sense": "indicator of population growth",
      "word": "生育率"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "indicator of population growth",
      "word": "hedelmällisyysluku"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "indicator of population growth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "taux de fécondité"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "indicator of population growth",
      "word": "angka fertilitas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "indicator of population growth",
      "word": "nisbah kesuburan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "indicator of population growth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dzietność"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fertility rate"
}