The most common and simplest form of business is a sole proprietorship. Many small businesses operating in the United States are sole proprietorships. An individual proprietor owns and manages the business and is responsible for all business transactions. The owner is also personally responsible for all debts and liabilities incurred by the business.
The current total fertility rate for the world is 2.5. Influencing this are countries that have TFRs of 6 and higher such as Niger (7.6), Democratic Republic of the Congo (6.3), and Uganda (6.2).
Last updated: April 2015. Slightly fewer than 4 million babies are born in the United States each year, and the details of how, when, and where they arrive are always shifting. Total fertility rate is an estimate of the average number of births a group of women have over their lifetime. The U.S. fertility rate has been declining since 2007. The latest news is that the fertility rate in the United States is still waning â down 1 percent in 2013 from 2012.