Correct answer: (d) the average number of live births a woman would have by the end of her child- bearing age.
Explanation
- A
the number of children born per 1000 people in the population in a year.
Children per 1,000 people in a year. That is a crude birth rate, not TFR.
- B
the number of children born to couple in their lifetime in a given population.
Children born to a couple in their lifetime. TFR is per woman, not per couple.
- C
the birth rate minus death rate.
Birth rate minus death rate. That is natural increase.
- D
the average number of live births a woman would have by the end of her child- bearing age.
Average live births a woman would have by the end of child-bearing, given current age-specific rates.
Summary. Official key is (d). Total fertility rate is the average number of live births a woman would have over her reproductive life if current age-specific fertility rates held. It is not CBR, not “per couple”, and not birth minus death.
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