The total fertility rate in an economy is defined as :

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(D) the average number of live births a woman would have by the end of her child-bearing age.

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(A) the number of children born per 1000 people in the population in a year.

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(B) the number of children born to a couple in their lifetime in a given population.

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(C) the birth rate minus death rate.