The average number of children who 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. It can thought of as the average number of lifetime births per woman.
Estimate of the average number of children who will be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she passes through all her childbearing years (ages 15-44) conforming to age-specific fertility rates of a given year. In simpler terms, it is an estimate of the average number of children a woman will have during her childbearing years.
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.
The number of children born to an average woman in a population during her entire reproductive life.
The number of births that 1,000 women would have if the current year's age-specific birth rate remained constant throughout their childbearing years.
The average number of chil- dren that would be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she were to bear children at each age in accord with prevailing age-specific fertility rates.
The average number of children that would be born per woman if all women lived to the end of their childbearing years and bore children according to a given set of age-specific fertility rates.
The average number of children that a woman has within her reproductive lifetime.
The average number of children that would be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she were to pass through her childbearing years conforming to the age-specific fertility rates of a given year. The rate refers to a synthetic female cohort. It is computed by the summation of the age-specific fertility rates. The total fertility rate is also used to indicate replacement level fertility; in the more developed countries, a rate of 2.1 is considered to be replacement level.
Average number of children per woman of childbearing age in a population.
The average number of children a woman will have during her lifetime, by country or region. Between 1980 and 1995 the average fertility rate in low-income countries and middle-income countries fell from 4.1 to 3.1, while in high-income countries it fell from 1.9 to 1.7.
The average number of children a woman would have during her lifetime if she were to go through her reproductive years experiencing the age-specific fertility rates of a particular period. The Australian TFR for 1998-99 (1.74) thus indicates the average number of children Australian women would have if, at every age, they had children at the same rate as women did in 1998-99.
the average number of children a woman would bear during her lifetime if she conformed to the current age-specific fertility rates throughout her life.
The average number of children that a woman gives birth to in her lifetime.
The number of livebirths a woman would have if, throughout her reproductive years, she had children at the rates prevailing in the reference calendar year. It is the sum of the age-specific fertility rates for that calendar year.
(1) 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. See also gross reproduction rate and net reproduction rate. (2) An estimate of the average number of children that would be born to each woman if the current age-specific birth rates remained constant. (2) A hypothetical estimate of completed fertility. It indicates how many births a woman would have by the end of her reproductive life, if, for all of her childbearing years, she was to experience the age-specific birth rates for that given year. (From U.S. Census Bureau Fertility of American Women: June 2000).
The total fertility rate (TFR, also called fertility rate or total period fertility rate (TPFR)) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she were to experience the current age-specific fertility rates through her lifetime. It is obtained by summing the age-specific rates for a given time-point.