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This section looks at numbers of births and characteristics of mothers as well as fertility rates. The total fertility rate is the expected number of children a woman will have in her lifetime based on the fertility of that year. The age-specific fertility rate measures the annual number of births to women of a specified age or age group per 1,000 women in that age group.
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