This paper addresses the issue of the trend and level of fertility in India during the coming decades. It takes as its starting point (i) the requirement to produce population projections which are as accurate as possible, and (ii) the fact that countries with fertility around or below the replacement level currently hold over forty percent of the world’s people. Since India contains one sixth ...

It is frequently assumed by the general public and also by some population experts that the value of replacement-level fertility is everywhere an average of 2.1 lifetime births per woman. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The global variation in replacement fertility is substantial, ranging by almost 1.4 live births from less than 2.1 to nearly 3.5. This range is due almost entirely to c...

Indigenous populations living in villages in Brazil have presented high total fertility rates (TFR) that have increased over time in some cases. Meanwhile, data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) or National Census Bureau show a decline in the TFR for the total self-declared indigenous population (combining urban, rural, and specific rural residence). The current st...

This paper explains the decline in total fertility rate (TFR) in China by investigating the quantitative effect of social insurance on peoplesąŕ fertility choice when investment in children is risky. The price and income effects are heterogeneous: low-income people tend to raise more children due to the reinforcing income and price effects, whereas for rich families the income effect dominates ...

This study aimed to determine Economic recessions affect economic and social indicators considerably. In this regard, fertility rates are affected by their implications. Generally, rate is negatively the recessions. Although crises decrease rates, for crisis relationship there variation region, areas (urban-rural), age, educational level parity. From point of view, in paper we looked at among l...

I. Trends in Fertility During the 1950s, baby boom-fueled explosive population growth had been eating into the poor basis of economic growth, working as a major cause of the vicious cycle of poverty. Therefore, the Korean government adopted the anti-natal policy and initiated a strong family planning program in the early 1960s when Korea’s economic development began to step up. As the family pl...

While countries around the world have experienced a continuous decrease in fertility, early part of new millennium (2005-15), almost all former Soviet Union recorded fertility increase. Those had after dissolution 1990s, and assumption was that economic recovery transition period led to rebound. In particular, higher socio-economic condition household women’s status were possible contributing f...