HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
DISEASE AND PEST MANAGEMENT
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Question
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the number of children that will survive to adulthood
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the number of years a typical infant will live
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the number of children each woman in a population will have
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the number of births per 1000 people per year
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) is a standard demographic indicator used internationally to estimate the average number of children that a woman would have over her childbearing years (i.e. age 15-49), based on current birth trends.
Detailed explanation-2: -The total fertility rate (TFR) is an age-period fertility rate for a synthetic cohort of women. It measures the average number of births a group of women would have by the time they reach age 50 if they were to give birth at the current age-specific fertility rates.
Detailed explanation-3: -Definition: The average number of children a hypothetical cohort of women would have at the end of their reproductive period if they were subject during their whole lives to the fertility rates of a given period and if they were not subject to mortality. It is expressed as children per woman.
Detailed explanation-4: -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 in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year. (1) United Nations Population Division.