Completed fertility

Definition

The completed fertility of a particular female who will not have any more children is the number of children the female has had (here, a "child" is counted as a live birth by the female). Completed fertility is a particular form of female fertility that applies only to females who can no longer have children.

In practice, an age threshold is set, typically at an age value beyond which it is very rare for females to have children, and for any female above the threshold, her fertility so far is treated as completed fertility.