The total fertility rate in the Netherlands decreased by 0.1 children per woman (-6.17 percent) compared to the previous year.
The total fertility rate in the United Kingdom saw no significant changes in 2022 in comparison to the previous year 2021 and remained at around 1.57 children per woman. Nevertheless, this was the first time during the observed period that the fertility rate increased in the United Kingdom. Th...
Along with the development of the times and progress of the society, the total fertility rate (TFR) markedly changed in each country. Therefore, it is critical to describe the trend of TFR and explore its influencing factors. However, previous studies did not consider the time lag and cumulati...
Raising the birth rate can effectively increase the resulting labour supply and minimise the adverse impact of an ageing population on high-quality economic development since the demographic dividend is rapidly declining. The Chinese government has a “three-child” policy in place, yet the fertility ...
With the declining fertility rate in China, improving the health status of migrant women of childbearing age and compensating for their health loss during childbirth is one of the strategies to raise future fertility levels. For instance, the government could introduce specific policies and regulations...
Abbas, Sami HamidHamid, Manar SamiSpecial Education
According to the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS) [14], there have been fluctuations in the fertility rate in the country, and the World Bank has also reported that Ghana’s TFR is declining at a much slower pace [14]. The rate of decline since 1980 has been reducing sharply....
This study employs, for the first time, the nonlinear ARDL cointegration methodology to examine the potentially asymmetric responses of fertility rate to business cycle after extensively controlling for prevalence of education, crude marriage and crude death rates in Taiwan over the period from 1950 to...
- For female fertility, we used the country-specific birth rate per 1000 population as a proxy. To obtain birth rate data, we used data collected and maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO) for 2019 [4]. - For the mean body mass index (age-standardized estimate, in kg/m2) ...
The fertility rate is different from the birth rate, in that the birth rate is the number of births in relation to the population over a specific period of time. Fertility rates around the world Fertility rates around the world differ on a country-by-country basis, and more industrialized ...