The highest
fertility rate among Omani women was 207.8 births per 1,000 women (between 25 and 29 years).
Martin, M.P.H., from the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, and colleagues examined general
fertility rates (number of births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 years) and teen birth rates using data from the National Vital Statistics System.
fertility rate continued to fall below what's needed for the population to replace itself, CNN reported.
Contraceptive use has declined in Punjab in the past five years, further aggravating an already high
fertility rate in the province.
Total
fertility rate was highest in France (1.90 births per woman), followed by Sweden (1.78), Ireland (1.77), Denmark (1.75) and the United Kingdom (1.74).
Cyprus and Greece have the third and fourth lowest
fertility rates in the EU with 1.32 and 1.35 births per woman, a Eurostat report published on Tuesday revealed.
Fertility rates in the UAE have fallen by 160 per cent from 1960 to 2017, while the demand for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) has gone up considerably, according to a new report.
The
fertility rate all but halved to 2.4 children per woman by last year.
A new UNFPA report examines the various factors that have a bearing on
fertility rates across the world, which in turn determine a country's developmental gains.
[USA], May 23 (ANI): Exposure to lead has an effect on
fertility rates, finds a study.
"The economic benefits of a low
fertility rate are less visible and largely private, while the public costs of it, such as pensions and healthcare, are all very visible so they get much attention," Lee told The Korea Times.
But shortly after Ehrlich's book, that began to change, with the total
fertility rate going from 4.9 in 1960 to 2.4 in 2015.