The ratio of the number of births to the size of the population; birth rate.
‘in spite of falling natality, the population as a whole went up’
‘There are also mounting indications that the skewed child male/female ratio is a consequence of increasing gender differences in natality, i.e. sex-selective abortion.’
‘The prospect of yet more exploitative taxes to support reproducer indulgence means that a questioning of the bio-political privileging of natality is long overdue.’
‘Following this approach, we can define four basic processes: natality, mortality, immigration, and emigration, each modeled by a separate model fragment.’
‘He notes that the Japanese government during the 1980s was using measures to encourage natality.’
‘Lower birth rate and greater parental attention to individual children helped advance the lower death rate - which in turn encouraged further reductions in natality.’
Origin
Late 19th century from French natalité, from nat- ‘born’, from the verb nasci.
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