Births According to provisional reports, an estimated 300,000 births occurred in the United States during December 1995. This was a decrease of 4 percent from the provisional number of births reported for December 1994 (314,000). The birth rate, 13.4 live births per 1,000 population, was 5 percent lower than the rate of 14.1 for December 1994. The fertility rate, 59.3 live births per 1,000 wome...

Fertility is being determined by the actual bearing of children and or the demand for children. It is a measure of rate at which population increases to itself by relating number of births to size of some selection of population such as number of married couples or number of women of child bearing age [1-3]. Fertility is high in Bangladesh even by the principles of developing countries. The red...

The rise in marital fertility in East Asian societies with very low fertility has been reported through analyses using the age-specific marital fertility rate (AMFR). Though the measure is often considered related to the average number of children married women have (CMF), we demonstrated that such an interpretation is often erroneous (AMFR problem) and valid only under limited conditions in mo...

Status of women is the mirror of cultural and socio – economic development of our country. Women’s status and fertility are interrelated. Various factorsenvironmental, socioeconomic, biological, psychological or cultural factors affect fertility. There is a positive correlation between women’s status and their fertility. Educated women have low birth rate in comparison to uneducated women. The ...

"The aim of this paper is to analyze empirically the causal relationship, if any, between infant mortality and fertility in thirty-five developing countries." The focus is on possible relationships between the infant mortality rate and the fertility rate. "The hypothesis that infant mortality causes fertility is tested. The possibility of a 'reverse causation' is also analyzed. A one-sided ...

Fertility is being determined by the actual bearing of children and or the demand for children. It is a measure of rate at which population increases to itself by relating number of births to size of some selection of population such as number of married couples or number of women of child bearing age [1-3]. Fertility is high in Bangladesh even by the principles of developing countries. The red...

Using panel data for 24 (OECD) countries during the period 1980–2004 this study examines how social trust affects fertility. The major finding through the random effects approach is that the social trust increases the fertility rate. A 1% rise in the trust rate leads to an increase in fertility by 0.01 points. The results presented here suggest that in developed countries, trust underlies the d...

During the past half century, fertility declines have been pervasive in Asia and Latin America. Between the early 1950s and the early 2000s, the total fertility rate (TFR)-the average number of live births a woman would have during her lifetime, assuming constant fertility rates-dropped from 5.7 to 2.4 births per woman in Asia and from 5.9 to 2.3 births per woman in Latin America.1 Only a handf...

There is a concern about declining birth rates in both the developing and developed world (www.rand.org). Fertility rates tend to be higher in poorly resourced countries but due to high maternal and perinatal mortality, there is a reduction in birth rates. in developing countries children are needed as a labour force and to provide care for their parents in old age. in these countries, fertilit...