low fertility
Difficulty conceiving children
Low fertility describes a population or region where people have fewer children than needed to maintain current numbers—typically below 2.1 births per woman, the replacement rate.
Demographers use the term when discussing aging societies, shrinking workforces, or pension sustainability: Japan's low fertility has persisted for decades.
The phrase also applies medically to individuals who struggle to conceive.
- barrenUnable to produce
- sterileFree from microorganisms
- childlessLacking any offspring
- empty armsLimbs with nothing held
- decliningDecreasing in strength
birthrate · family planning · conception · reproductive · IVF · egg freezing · ovulation · miscarriage · womb · biological clock · ticking clock · menopause · sperm count · hormones · struggling · two week wait · empty nursery · pregnancy test
- cattle breedingovarian cysts, hormonal imbalance, congenital defects, inbreeding, twinning
- fertility statessterile, barren, fecund, potent, impotent
- barren landswasteland, wastelands, badlands, arid land, drylands
- desert ecologysand dunes, dunes, sandy soils, sparse vegetation, wind erosion
low fertilityfertile soil
Nutrient-rich growing medium
nutrient-rich · loamy · loamy soil · arable land · arable
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