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Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
The average number of children that would be born alive to a woman (or group of women) during her lifetime if she were to pass through her childbearing years conforming to the age-specific fertility rates of a given year. This rate is sometimes stated as the number of children women are having today.
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All terms and definitions, except where noted, are excerpted with permission
from the Population Reference Bureau's International Population Handbook, by
Arthur Haupt and Thomas Kane, 4th Edition, 1998.
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