Completed fertility

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Definition

The completed fertility of a particular female who has completed her childbearing years 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, a fixed age range (such as 15-44 or 15-49) is used as a proxy for childbearing years.

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