the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year

if you adjust their lifetime fertility rate to take account of this bulge of babies on arrival, you find immigrant fertility is about 2.2, not much above average.

如果考虑到达时的婴儿波峰，从而调整她们的终身出生率的话，会发现移民的人口出生率大约2.2，并不比平均水平高出多少。

and about the only thing that the ultra-orthodox jews of israel and the aggrieved palestinians in the gaza strip share is a fertility rate of six or more.

而唯一一个有问题的变是由以色列的极端犹太正教徒和激进的巴基斯坦人共同组成的加沙地带，这里的平均生育率仍然是六个。

but with a population as large as china「s and over a long time horizon, the consequences of small differences in the fertility rate are far reaching.

但以中国这么大的人口总数，在经过较长时期过后，生育率的微小差别也会产生深远的影响。

yet the fall in the fertility rate may reflect dissatisfactions too: notably, over the difficulties faced by women who want both to work and to raise a family.

但是生育率的下降也反映出一些不满情绪：最显着的是既要工作又要顾家的妇女面临的重重困难。

many rural people have ignored the rules. and thailand, by contrast, has achieved a sharper drop in its fertility rate over the same period without such tough measures.

不少农村人选择忽视该政策。相比之下，泰国没有采取如此强硬的措施也在同期达到了控制高生育率的目的。

at 1.34 children per woman, japan」s fertility rate is one of the lowest in the world, well below the 2.1 that is considered the minimum for a developed nation to maintain a constant population.

平均每个家庭只有1.34个孩子，日本的人口出生率是世界上生育率最低的几个国家之一,这个数字明显低于公认的保持国家人口稳定的数字——2.1。

the fertility rate has risen to 1.66, still below the replacement level but higher than the national average.

生育率已升至1.66，虽仍比维持现有人口规模所需的生育率低，但已高出全国平均水平。

in france the fertility rate is already around two children per female, not far short of the 「replacement rate」 which keeps population numbers steady.

法国的人口出生率已经达到每个家庭两个孩子，离保持人口数量稳定的「替代率」相差无几。

yet when british governor chris patten took the slow boat home, he left behind a colony with the lowest fertility rate in the world — below one child per woman.

当它的英国统治者坐着慢船回家时，他留下了一个全世界生育率最低的殖民地——每位妇女低于一个小孩。

shanghai has had a fertility rate of less than 1.7 since 1975; in guizhou, china’s poorest province, the rate is 2.2.

中国上海自1975年生育率就低于1.7，而在中国最贫穷的贵州省，生育率为2.2。

so our sample slide touches on the low fertility rate in japan in this context.

因此我们的这张样片所谈论的就是日本低生育率的主题。

instead, in country afterdeveloped country, the fertility rate fell below replacement level.

相反，一个个发达国家的生育率降到了更替水平以下。

zhang juwei of cass believes the overall fertility rate is no higher than 1.6.

社科院的张居伟（音译）认为总体上生育率不会超过1.6。

japan's fertility rate has dropped to 1.34 children per woman, shrinking the pool of workers and consumers, and increasing the burden on younger employees to pay for an aging population.

日本的生育率已经降到了平均每个妇女生1.34个孩子，这使得劳动力和消费人群不断减少，年轻劳动者养活老龄人口的压力越来越大。

another study discovered that, as cable television spread, the fertility rate in rural india dropped by as much as if women had received five additional years of education.

另一项研究发现，随着有线电视的普及，印度乡村地区的生育率降低的程度相当于妇女再接受五年的额外教育。

the lifetime fertility rate for american high-school dropouts is 2.4; for women with advanced degrees, it is only 1.6.

一个只上过高中的女性一生的生育率是2.4；但受过高等教育的女性这个数字只有1.6。

since child mortality is higher in poor countries, the replacement fertility rate is higher there, too.

在贫穷国家中，因为儿童死亡率更高，所以生育等值替换率也更高。

the country has the lowest fertility rate among developed nations with an average of 1.08 children per woman.

韩国的人口出生率在发达国家中是最低的，平均每个妇女只有1.08个孩子。

though its fertility rate may have fallen recently, it is still slightly higher than europe’s.

虽然美国的生育率最近可能下降了，它仍然比欧洲要高一点。

the total fertility rate of south korean women (ie, the average number of births they can expect) has dropped to just 1.26 (see chart 1), down from 4.5 in 1970 and 1.5 in 2000.

韩国妇女的生育率（即：他们希望生育子女的数量）从1970年的4.5降至2000年的1.5，现已降至1.26（参见表1）。

sometime between 2020 and 2050 the world’s fertility rate will fall below the global replacement rate.

世界人口生育率将在2020至2050年期间降至世界生育替代率水平以下。

in other words, the fertility rate is falling because more women are postponing marriage to nearer the end of their reproductive lives.

也就是说，生育率的下降是因为更多的妇女将婚姻推迟至近乎他们生命中生育阶段的末尾。

india’s poorest state, bihar, has a fertility rate of 4; richer tamil nadu and kerala have rates below 2.

印度最贫穷的省，比尔哈省，生育率为4，而最富有省份泰米尔纳德邦和碦拉拉邦生育率为2以下。