This chart shows the Total Fertility Rate in 2015 by country.
Total fertility rate (TFR) compares figures for 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 fertility rate at each age. TFR is a more direct measure of the level of fertility than the crude birth rate, since it refers to births per woman.
The total fertility rate(TFR), sometimes also called the fertility rate, period total fertility rate(PTFR) 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 exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime, and
- She were to survive from birth through the end of her reproductive life.
It is obtained by summing the single-year age-specific rates at a given time.
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