total fertility rate
Sign in to saveAlso known as TFR, fertility rate, absolute/potential natality, PTFR, period total fertility rate, total period fertility rate, TPFR
number of children a woman is expected to have barring select circumstances
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Children per woman per the United Nations
The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through their lifetime, and they were to live from birth until the end of their reproductive life.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “total fertility rate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.