True about ‘total fertility rate’ is

• Standardized index for fertility level. • Average no. of children a woman would bear in her reproductive life span; Also known as ‘Period Total Fertility Rate.’ • Gives magnitude of approximately ‘completed family size’ – no. of alive children in a family. • Obtained by summing single-year age-specific rates at a given time. • TFR is a synthetic rate: Is not actually counted, as this would involve waiting until women complete childbearing.