...3.— Total Fertility Rates by 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...

...pass through childbearing age before a stationary population (or zero-population growth) is reached. Total Fertility Rate is the average number of children...be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she follows current age-specific patterns of childbearing. It represents the completed family size of the...

...assumptions are as follows: F_ortll_itv is being measured by Total Fertility Rates (TFR • the overage number of children that would be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she were to pass through all her childbearing ye.irs conforming to the age-specific fertility rates of a given...

...Fertility Rate: The total fertility rate (TFR) is a hypothetical measure (a synthetic estimate) of the average number of children that would be born...alive to a woman during her lifetime if she were to pass through all her childbearing years conforming to the age-specific fertility rates of a given year....

...and the data assumptions are as follows: Fertility is being ncasured by Total Fertility Rates (TFR - the average number of children that would be born alive to a woman during her lifeline if she were to pass through all her childbearing yean conforming to the age-specific fertility...

...the data assumptions are as follows: Fertility is being neasurcd by Total Fertility Rates (TFR • the average number of children that would be born alive to a woiun during her lifetime if she were to pass through all her childbearing years conforming to the...

...increase or decrease in size (in which the birth rate equals the death rate). total fertility rate The average number of children that would be born alive to a woman (or group of women) according to a set of fertility rates providing there is survival through the childbearing...

...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. Caldwell, The Theory of Fertility Decline (New York: Academic Press, 1982);...

...alive a specified number of years later. Total fertility rate (TFR). The average number of children who would be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she lived through all her childbearing years and conformed to all the age-specific fertility rates of a...

...structure. • Coale, 1984, pp. 48-54. The "total fertility rate" is the average number of children who would be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she lived through all her childbearing years and conformed to all the age-specific fertility rates of a...