The ________ Is the Average Number of Children That Would

question 70

Multiple Choice

The ________ is 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.

• A) life cycle rate
• B) total fertility rate
• C) net birth rate
• D) population rate

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