Total feility rate is defined as: September 2005

Ans. A: Number of children's born to woman over her The total feility rate /TFR/ feility rate/period total feility rate (PTFR)/total period feility 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 feility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime, and she were to survive from bih through the end of her reproductive life. It is obtained by summing the single-year age-specific rates at a given time