Terms used in official statistics

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General fertility rate

Description of the concept that applied to: 31.12.2017


Definition:
The ratio of number of live births in a given period to the number of women who are of childbearing age.


The rate is calculated for periods not shorter than one year. It expresses the average number of children born during the given period per 1000 women (or 100 women) in the reproductive age.


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