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The fertility rate is the:

A. number of births per 1,000 people per year
B. average number of children a population of women have in their lifetimes.
c. number of emigrants subtracted from the number of immigrants per 1,000 people.

D. total number of deaths emigrants subtracted from the total number of births and immigrants per 1000 people
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A. number of births per 1,000 people per year
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Answer: B
Reasoning: The Fertility rate is measured by the amount of children a women has during her lifetime. We use fertility rate to measure the population growth to identify multiple things like: Growth rate of a country, Carbon footprint per capita, growth rate of the population.
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