I understand that many women will not have kids or will have only one kid, or that child mortality is involved but still a fertility rate of 2 means that ON AVERAGE every woman will have 2 kids. This means that every woman and man will be replaced, including the children that die young if the rate of 2 lasts (the newborn females will also have on average two kids). So why isn’t a fertility rate of 2 enough to replace the population?
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Because not all children make it to reproductive age, or find a mate/reproduce once they get there.
If each woman only produced exactly 2 offspring, then on average there would not be enough to replace the previous generation AND compensate for the ones who fail to have children of their own.
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