Birth rate
In terms of the Statistics on the natural movement of the population of the Federal Statistical Office:
The average number of children is used to describe the current reproductive behaviour. It indicates how many children a woman
would have during her life, if her reproductive behaviour would be like that of all women between 15 and 49 years in each considered year.
The average number of children is calculated as summarized birth rate. For this purpose all births are sorted by the age of the mothers.
Then, for each age the proportion of women of that age, who have had a baby this year is calculated. The result is age-specific birth
rates for the age of 15 years, 16 years etc. up to 49 years. These average values of the different ages are added. The result is the
summarized birth rate.
Glossary for the collection and evaluation of indicators of fertility
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- Statistics on the current movement of the population
- Statistics on the current movement of the population - Methods [general]
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