birthwise en · ADV
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From birth + -wise.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In terms of birth or births.
Reading down both columns, the most hard-hit area, deathwise, was Sichuan and the most hard-hit area, birthwise, was Anhui province.
1996, Terry Lee Anderson, Peter Jensen Hill, The Privatization Process: A Worldwide Perspective, page 160: