Population replacement in Latvia: current state and prospects
... Latvian researcher in the field of demography, and associate professor at the Riga School of Economics has called this Strategy “a letter to Santa Claus”.<8>
The article aims to study the medium-term fertility trend in Latvia in terms of the total fertility rate (TFR). It is a demographic coefficient that estimates the average number of children a woman would bear over her lifetime if she were to experience the age-specific fertility rates observed in a given year throughout her reproductive years, typically defined ...
