DIV The world's population has grown by five billion people over the past century, an
astounding 300 percent increase. Yet it is actually the decline in family size and population …

Fecundity, the biologic capacity to reproduce, is essential for the health of individuals and is,
therefore, fundamental for understanding human health at the population level. Given the …

The issue of ultra-low fertility in Pacific Asia appears to have crept up on the world's
consciousness surreptitiously. Within the region it receives considerable attention from the …

The world fertility map illustrates the major fertility decline across the world, including in
Africa, over the last 2 decades. In 2021, almost two-thirds of the world population lived in …

BACKGROUND One of the fundamental arguments sustaining the classical demographic
transition theory was that couples wanted to have a given number of surviving children, not a …

This address to the 1997 IUSSP General Conference urges the need to regard the global
fertility transition as a single process explained by a unified fertility transition theory. The …

At the first intergovernmental global Population Conference at Bucharest in 1974, delegates
from the Third World argued that rapid population growth would only be controlled when a …

4.7 corr mx Page 1 Sir— On 26 August, the United Nations (UN) World Summit on
Sustainable Development in Johannesburg will consider strategies with a far broader …

Between 1950 and 1970, the annual percentage growth of the world's population rose from
about 1.8 to just under 2.1 per cent, largely in response to improving mortality conditions in …

The principal focus of this paper is to analyze the fertility transition of the 19th to early 21st
centuries with cohort fertility measures, and a discussion of key societal conditions shaping …