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The total fertility rate (TFR), sometimes also called the fertility rate, period total fertility rate (PTFR) or total period fertility rate (TPFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if: # She were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime, and # She were to survive from birth through the end of her reproductive life.〔(Total fertility rate definition from CIA world factbook ). Cia.gov. Retrieved on 2012-09-17.〕 It is obtained by summing the single-year age-specific rates at a given time. ==Parameter characteristics== The TFR is a synthetic rate, not based on the fertility of any real group of women since this would involve waiting until they had completed childbearing. Nor is it based on counting up the total number of children actually born over their lifetime. Instead, the TFR is based on the age-specific fertility rates of women in their "child-bearing years", which in conventional international statistical usage is ages 15–44 or 15–49.〔(National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) ), "Statistical Measures and Definitions" (16 June 2010 ).〕 The TFR is, therefore, a measure of the fertility of an ''imaginary'' woman who passes through her reproductive life subject to ''all'' the age-specific fertility rates for ages 15–49 that were recorded for a given population in a given year. The TFR represents the average number of children a woman ''would'' potentially have, were she to fast-forward through all her childbearing years in a single year, under all the age-specific fertility rates for that year. In other words, this rate is the number of children a woman would have if she was subject to prevailing fertility rates at all ages from a single given year, and survives throughout all her childbearing years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Total fertility rate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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