The total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children at each age in accordance with prevailing age-specific fertility rates. World Development Indicators 2008 - Page 105by World Bank - 2008 - 440 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1997 - 144 pages
...age-specific birth rates applicable during the year. Thus the total fertility rate can be interpreted as the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to survive her childbearing years and were to experience those age-specific birth rates throughout her... | |
| 1937 - 54 pages
...Calendar Year and Alternative (Cent.) [Per thousand women] Note: The total fertility rate is the average number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to survive the childbearing period and were to experience the age-specific central birth rates for the... | |
| Rodger Yeager, Norman N. Miller - 1986 - 200 pages
...total fertility rate had climbed to 8.0, the highest in the world. Total fertility is an estimate of the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to reproduce, throughout her reproductive cycle, at her country's average fertility rates from puberty... | |
| J. Mayone Stycos - 228 pages
...31-34/1000 in 1800 to 27/1000 in 1900 and to 10/1000 in 1980-1985. The total fertility rate (the average number of children that would be born to a woman if she were subject to current age-specific fertility rates for her entire reproductive years) was about 4.2 in... | |
| W. W. Rostow - 1992 - 733 pages
...in the population. The total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born per woman, if she were to live to the end of her child-bearing years and bear children at each age in accordance with prevailing age-specific fertility rates. 5. See, for example, John C.... | |
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