They should have left off 'EVERY YEAR'. Replacement level
Posted on: January 6, 2020 at 08:59:59 CT
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requires an average of about 2.1 births per woman to keep a population from going down. But the way that sentence reads, we need 2.1 births per woman EVERY YEAR to maintain replacement level population.
"Every year, there must be at least 2,100 births per 1,000 women to be considered at or above replacement level."