Total fertility rate is a measurement of how many children would be born to each woman in a society if each woman lived to the end of her childbearing years. It’s expressed as a specific number per woman in a population – total fertility rates above 2 (per woman) generally mean a population is growing. Areas with high poverty and low educational attainment tend to have high total fertility rates.
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Total Fertility Rate is…
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Infant Mortality Rate is…
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Infant mortality rate is a measure of how many babies under one year old die each year compared to how many are born. It’s usually expressed as some number out of 1000; i.e, about 7/1,000 infants die before reaching a year old in the United States (which ranks us about 29th in the world). Areas with high poverty and poor healthcare tend to have high infant mortality rates.
Birth Rate is…
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Birth rate is a measure of how many babies are born relative to the population of a given area – city, country, continent, or whatever. Like infant mortality rate, it’s usually expressed as a number out of 1,000 (x/1,000). Poorer, less educated populations of people tend to have higher birth rates.
Family Planning is…
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Family planning is the ability to choose the number of children in a family and the space of time between births. Women in many countries do not have these options either because of a lack of resources or their rights are restricted. Family planning is an important component to improving women’s health as well as creating more stable and successful families.