TFR

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• In the late Soviet era, Russian fertility levels were near replacement: the country's total fertility rate (TFR) fluctuated near two births per woman from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s.

  Academic text (2005)

• At the same time, the TFR of secular women rose by 8.9 percent from 1.90 children per woman in 2003 to 2.07 in 2009.

  Academic text (2013)

• The TFR sums up in a single number the fertility of all women at a given point in time.

  Academic text (1997)

• Total fertility rate (TFR) is used as an indicator of fertility.

  Academic text (1990)

• The TFR of all Arabs decreased still further to 3.3 children per woman, very close to the 3.09 for Jews born in Israel.

  Academic text (2013)

• Likewise, from the beginning of the twenty-first century, the TFR of Israeli Muslims decreased considerably, from 4.7 in 2000 to 3.5 children per woman in 2011.

  Academic text (2013)

• The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) is the average number of children that would be born alive to a woman (or a group of women) during her lifetime if she were to pass through all her childbearing years conforming to the age-specific fertility rates of a given year.

  Academic text (1997)

• Between the early 1960s and the early 1990s, for example, Thailand's estimated "total fertility rate" (TFR) plunged from over six births per woman per lifetime to less than two.

  Academic text (1997)

• At the moment, Italy's TFR is estimated to be less than 1.2; the UN's "low variant" projections anticipate the continuation of this pattern to the year 2050.

  Academic text (1997)

• However, in Egypt and Jordan, the total fertility rate is approximately 3.1–3.3 due to a huge difference between low fertility rates in the urban centers and much higher fertility rates in rural and peripheral areas, yielding an average TFR of 3.1–3.3.

  Academic text (2015)

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