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Note that these age-specific fertility rates measure the number of births per 1,000 women. This does not directly measure how easy it is for a woman in that age group to conceive (what OP referenced), because fertility rate is confounded by the degree to which women (1) actively try to conceive (versus avoid conception), and (2) decide to carry pregnancies to term.


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