In contrast, American women have an average of 2.1 children.

Santa has an average of 3.12 children and 7.14 grandchildren.

Over the last six years, an average of 37 children have died each year as a result of abuse in military families.

An average of 14 children and teen-agers are killed with guns each day.

It takes an average of 2.1 children per woman to keep a population constant.

Chinese women bear an average of 2.4 children, up from 2.2 in 1985.

In the same 1990-1995 period, fertility also declined, to an average of 2.96 children per woman.

The fertility rate, according to 2007 estimates, is relatively high, with an average of 5 children per woman.

An average of 17 children die every year from injuries on playground equipment.

An average of three children a day died then, he said, compared with three to seven a week now.