1. Patterns of Fertility LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Define the different types of fertility
Describe the global patterns of fertility

2. Measuring Fertility

3. Key Terms
Crude Birth Rate (CBR) the average annual number of births during a year per 1,000 persons in the population

4. Key terms
General Fertility Rate. This in an indicator of the number of likely births. It is an index of the number of live births in a year divided by the number of women aged between 15 and 49.

5. Key terms
Total Fertility Rate (TFR) This gives a figure for the average number of children that would be born per woman if all women lived to the end of their childbearing years and bore children according to a given fertility rate at each age.

6. Patterns of Fertility

7. Patterns of Fertility

8. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
Patterns of Fertility
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
More children are born each year in Africa than are born in the Americas, all of Europe and Japan put together. Worldwide, more than a third of a million new people will be born on your birthday this year.