More than half of the global population lives where fertility is below replacement level
Chris Wilson, Gilles Pison
Population and societies
N°405, octobre 2004, n° ISSN 0184 77 83
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Abstract (click on +)
One of the demographic paradoxes in the world today is that the population is still growing rapidly, while fertility–the number of children women have on average–has sharply decreased. Even the experts find it difficult to realize that it is now below 2.1 children per woman in many developing countries, which have in this caught up with the developed ones. How did this situation come about, and what consequences will it have?
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More than half of the global population lives where fertility is below replacement level
- The median fertlity level has fallen from 5.4 to 2.1 in fifty years
- Among the developing countries or regions with low fertility are Brazil, Tunisia, parts of India and most of China
