What Does Birth Rate Mean in Science?

The birth rate is the ratio between the number of live-born births in the year and the average total population of that year.

What is birth rate in ecology?

Natality in population ecology is the scientific term for birth rate. Along with mortality rate, natality rate is used to calculate the dynamics of a population. They are the key factors in determining whether a population is increasing, decreasing or staying the same in size.

What is the term for birth rate?

: the ratio between births and individuals in a specified population and time often expressed as number of live births per hundred or per thousand population per year. — called also natality.