Total Fertility Rate
- Number of children that would be born to each woman if during child-bearing years at current rates.
- TFR only for female population within fertile age.
- Captures idea of attitude towards fertility and fertility age, unlike Crude Birth Rate.
- Relation to popl. replacement.
- A TFR of
means population will eventually stop growing. - When TFR falls below
which is replacement. It's very hard to get it back up.
- A TFR of
- Spatial Data:
- Differences between rural and urban areas likely.