Fertility rates refer to the number of live births per 1,000 women of childbearing age (usually considered to be between 15 and 49 years old) in a population in a given year.
Think of fertility rates like the production rate at a toy factory. The factory (population) has a certain number of workers (women of childbearing age), and the toys they produce each year (live births) determine the production rate (fertility rate).
Total Fertility Rate: This 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 through her lifetime.
Replacement Level Fertility: This is the total fertility rate—the average number of children born per woman—at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next, without migration.
Child-Woman Ratio: This is an alternative measure of fertility, it's calculated by dividing the number of children under five years old by the number of women aged 15-49 years, then multiplying by 1,000.
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