Total Fertility Rate is…

October 29th, 2009

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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