The total fertility rate in an economy is defined as:
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(a)the number of children born per 1000 people in the population in a year.
(b)the number of children born to a couple in their lifetime in a given population.
(c)the birth rate minus death rate.
(d)the average number of live births a woman would have by the end of her child-bearing age.
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