ArticleDemography2020
Pathways to Low Fertility: 50 Years of Limitation, Curtailment, and Postponement of Childbearing.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Fertility Intentions in Rural Malawi After Cyclone Idai.Population and environment · 2025Article
- The Educational Differentiation of African Birth Timing.Studies in family planning · 2025Article
- Trends and cross-country inequalities in the global burden of neurodevelopmental disorders among children aged 0-14 from 1990 to 2021.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Genetics of female and male reproductive traits and their relationship with health, longevity and consequences for offspring.Nature aging · 2024Review
- Assessing Trends in the Desire to Avoid Pregnancy: A Cautionary Note.Studies in family planning · 2024Article
- Understanding the association between family planning and fertility reduction in Southeast Asia: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Determinants of Neonatal, Infant and Child Mortalities in Iran: A Systematic Review.Iranian journal of public health · 2024Review
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- The illusion of stable fertility preferences.Population studies · 2022Article
- Factors Influencing the Delay in Childbearing: A Narrative Review.Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery researchReview
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Abstract
This study applies survival analysis to the birth histories from 317 national surveys to model pathways to low fertility in 83 less-developed countries between 1965 and 2014. It presents period measures of parity progression, the length of birth intervals and total fertility that have been standardized fully for age, parity, and interval duration. It also examines parity-specific trends in the proportion of women who want no more children. Outside sub-Saharan Africa, fertility transition was dominated by parity-specific family size limitation. As the transition progressed, women also began to postpone their next birth for lengthy periods in many countries. During the first half of the fertility transition in much of sub-Saharan Africa and in some other countries, however, women stopped childbearing without targeting particular family sizes. Moreover, birth intervals in sub-Saharan Africa have been lengthening since the onset of the transition. Birth control is not restricted to a dichotomy between limitation and spacing. Other reasons for curtailing childbearing and postponing having another birth also shape countries' pathways through fertility transition.
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