Is low fertility bottoming out?
October 21st, 2009
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Dermot Grenham, Mercatornet.com
The received wisdom among demographers and other social sciences is that as countries develop economically and socially their fertility rates decline. However, a recent article in Nature1 has shown that at higher levels of development, as measured by the UN’s Human Development Index (HDI), the fall in fertility goes into reverse. Could this be the answer to the problem of ageing populations? Read more…
Categories: Babies, Children, Demography, Population babies, Children, demographics, Demography, elderly, fertility rates
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