Term:
Age-Specific Fertility
Definition:
The number of births during a time period, ( usually a year ) , occurring to women of a specified age group divided by the number of women in the population of the same age group expressed as person - years.
Domain:
Population
Source:
UN, Department of Economic and So-cial Affair, Population Division, World Population Prospects, the 2010 Revision, Standard variants (Updated: 28 June 2011)
