Inequality in total fertility rates and the proximate determinants of fertility in 21 sub-Saharan African countries

Contributions of Proximate Determinants to Fertility Transition in Bangladesh: An Analysis of Bongaarts’ Fertility Model

Introduction: Fertility transition is outright by prime four proximate determinants (marriage, contraception, postpartum infecundability, and abortion). The present study examines the contributions of proximate determinants on fertility decline and quantifies inhibiting the effect of major proximate determinants according to the socioeconomic characteristics in Bangladesh.<br /...

A Re-assessment of Fertility Trends in 17 Sub-saharan African Countries

Proximate determinants of fertility and reproductive health

The dramatic decline in mortality rates during the nineteenth century put the countries of the world into an imbalanced stage of demographic transition. Developed societies adopted fertility control methods and achieved a balance in their annual rate of population growth, whilst developing countries and traditional societies are still confronted with the following serious hazards: 1. Poor healt...

The Proximate Determinants during the Fertility Transition

Fertility has declined very markedly in the majority of developing countries over the past thirty to forty years, and it continues to decline almost everywhere. As a result, fertility has reached very low levels in many countries. In addition, currently more than 40 per cent of the world’s population lives in countries with total fertility levels lower than 2.1 children per woman, the level tha...

Determinants of Institutional Quality in Sub-Saharan African Countries