world in comparative population sizes

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.

world in comparative population sizes

Migration pattern of human families between 170,000 and 7,000 years before the present.

 

The number of children in a completed family; that is, after a woman has completed her childbearing years.

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Darfur mother and new born; French mother and child portraits from the 19th century.

The number of children born to women during their reproductive years is referred to as the total fertility rate [TFR].

Selected TFR for nations:

CATEGORY TFR Rank of Places
Highest

7.6

6.9

1 Niger

2 Mali

Higher

6.14

6.08

6.0

5.97

3 Burundi

4 Somalia

5 Nigeria

6 Uganda

MEDIUM

2.87

2.86

2.86

2.86

2.83

2.80

2.79

62 Egypt

63 Pakistan

64 Oman

65 Honduras

66 West Bank

67 Bolivia

68 Haiti

Lowest

1.29

1.26

1.25

1.25

1.17

1.11

217 Lithuania

218 Bosnia and Herzegovina

219 British Virgin Islands

220 Korea, South

221 Hong Kong

222 Taiwan

Average World 2.45 See Kaiser Health News

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