Antonym: sterility. Similar words: fertility rate, fertilize, utility, ability, agility, facility, viability, pertinacity. Meaning: [fə(r)'tɪlətɪ] n. 1. the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year 2. the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring 3. the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth.
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31. It may increase slightly but if fertility continues to decline at the present rate that is unlikely.
32. But in most the pace of fertility decline has diminished since the early l980s.
33. These strategies are commonsensical and have made a large dent in the fertility of many nations.
34. In response to the marriage boom, fertility reached an all-time high at around 1800.
35. Several factors have encouraged the fertility of women over age 30.
36. Empowerment increases the opportunity costs of children, prompting later marriages and increasing the divorce rate, similarly lowering fertility.
37. Declines in infant mortality may have contributed indirectly to declining fertility, though evidence on the matter is inconclusive.
38. Even without ageing, organisms are at risk of death and impaired fertility from disease, predation and accidents.
39. These spirits of the forest are considered to control the fertility of women and to prosper men's hunting.
40. First licensed by Bishop Lacey of Exeter in 1436 it was used for special intercession by barren women seeking fertility.
41. Research compiled by the Population Council indicates that abortion has contributed to without being indispensable to, fertility declines in every region.
42. Two major problems dominate further enquiry into today's fertility patterns and trends in Britain and the whole industrial world.
43. The total fertility rate went up from 2.22 to 2.94 - an increase of 32 percent.
44. Our findings are based on a cohort of women seeking insemination treatment because their partners had a fertility problem.
45. Better contraception does not necessarily mean lower fertility, although it should mean less unwanted fertility.
46. The non-burrowing earthworms play a different role in soil fertility.
47. These factors include leaving parental home, marriage, fertility history, occupational change, retirement and sickness in old age.
48. In it the whole idea of the fertility rite is exploded, using the very forms and devices of the traditional ritual.
49. The decline in the general fertility rate was matched by a reduction in family size.
50. The National Fertility Survey found that out of the total of women using contraception, 52.5% had been sterilized.
51. The results suggest that fertility rates are a function not so much of religion as of education and employment.
52. Yet, the work's direction is quite the opposite of that conventionally assigned to the fertility rite.
53. These preliminary results suggest the desirability of looking beyond the female labour market for an adequate characterization of economic influences on fertility.
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54. This was an anxiety about the steady increase of fertility down the social scale.
55. The correlation between fertility trends and relative wages and work-force participation works well over time within particular countries.
56. The sextuplets were born after their Mum Sue had fertility treatment.
57. All this has upset the applecart of the relation of fertility to prosperity.
58. The Rock opens with the seasonal fertility cycle which had horrified the trapped Eliot of the earlier poetry and the dramatic fragments.
59. A more sensitive indicator of fertility behaviour is the average completed family size of women born in the same year.
60. His appearance is essential to the tribes' fertility, and he is petitioned in initiation rites for young boys at puberty.
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