How a Fertility Rate Differs
Michalis 'BIG Mike' Kotzakolios


Defined Tag: Fertility Rate.

There are many statistics available that measure how and when women tend to have children over the course of their lifetimes. These factors help to determine the potential population of a country. Information is collected based on how many children a women could have in her lifetime based on the age specific fertility rate as her life progresses. Different times in history and different needs affect how this rate works. If the rate was based solely on what is called replacement fertility, then the average woman would have 2.1 births in the industrialized world. It is slightly over two because not all children reach maturity. In developing countries, this number is slightly higher, depending in the country, and can range anywhere from 2.5 to 3.3. If the replacement rates worldwide were averaged, then this rate would be 2.33 children for each woman.

In developing countries, the fertility rates are significantly higher than in industrialized countries. There are several reasons for this. First there is less access to birth control and so more babies are born because there is no way to prevent the pregnancies. A well, their child mortality rates are much higher while their need for children to help work the land with them, care for the animals, and eventually for themselves when they age is a big consideration in the size of the families they have. Another factor that effects these rates are the fact the women in these countries have less opportunities to be educated and so less possibility of being employed outside the home.

In developed countries, women are educated and career oriented. They strive to accomplish what they want in life before they settle down to having a family. This means more women are starting their families later in life. This can affect their fertility potential. Times have changed and so women are changing with them with. After the Second World War, the country was repopulating itself. The fertility rate peaked by the latter half of the 1950s with women having 3.8 children. As recently as 1999 it is down to two children per woman.

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