… conjecture that the African fertility decline is likely to present the world with a new type of
demographic transition, one where a similarity in contraceptive use and fertility decline is found …

… marked decline in fertility … fertility decline in many others. His updated assessm five years
later was more sweeping:" A fairly widespread decline in f ity is currently underway across Africa…

… This report focuses on the prospects for fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa as assessed
for the period since 1985. In 1985, the World Bank commissioned various reports on fertility, …

… the transition of fertility in half a century. In sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, fertility declined
only slightly … Africa is the last continent where the transition was delayed and remained largely …

… to assess the role of fertility demand as an obstacle to fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa
and, conversely, to consider how declines in desired fertility might facilitate decline. We con …

… We seek to determine if fertility decline has been slower in sub-Saharan Africa than elsewhere
in … in year 15, is sub-Saharan Africa not the region with the slowest pace of fertility decline. …

… First, we add a channel that links fertility decline to impro outcomes for children. Through …
which th the population age structure due to fertility decline may in rates. In particular, savings …

… fertility prior to the start of fertility decline, the time period of fertility transition, and the estimated
pace of decline… of different fertility decline patterns for future fertility and ulation projections …

… A clear exception in Africa is Rwanda (the outlier in the right-hand panel of Figure 2), … fertility
decline between 2005 and 2010 (we discuss Rwanda in more detail below). Clearly, Africa’…

… governments in sub-Saharan Africa do to accelerate the decline of fertility in the region? It …
of fertility for sub-Saharan Africa, and suggests that in light of the stalling of fertility decline that …