birth-rates

With one of the world's lowest birth rates, Taiwan faces the prospect of a rapidly aging population without a young workforce to support it.

One is the sheer size of that particular group. As birth rates have come down, subsequent generations have turned out to be a lot smaller.

He said experts would typically expect to see live birth rates of around 15 per cent in a group of 40-year-old women.

Rich countries are at the beginning of a demographic crisis, with birth rates starting to fall below replacement levels.

I had much earlier used economic theory to try to understand birth rates and family size.

On a larger scale, during the 1990s there was a dramatic decline in teenage birth rates in the US, especially among African Americans.

A bulge of better-educated young people of working age is entering the job market and birth rates are beginning to decline.

Milan is a fast-ageing city in the country with one of the lowest birth rates in Europe.

Instead, China's population challenges have shifted to low birth rates, an aging society and a widening gender imbalance.

Yet today's Italy has one of the world's lowest birth rates, thanks to near-universal defiance of Vatican teaching on contraception.

Politically these nations tend to be unstable , with very high birth rates but poor education and very low levels of literacy.

Today, however, we see that birth rates are dipping below replacement levels even incountries hardly known for luxury.

Many studies, he notes, have demonstrated that an increase in the education of females leads to a decrease in birth rates.

The cost of higher education has contributed to plummeting birth rates among pushy parents in other rich countries, too.

Female employment rates and birth rates had surged to be among the highest in the developed world.

All of these groups continue to have above-average birth rates.

Small and new programs may still be determining their live birth rates, although their personnel may be equally well qualified.

Instead, they'll be places like Iran and Mexico, which experienced youth bulges that were followed quickly by a collapse in birth rates.

Experts say this was a result of falling birth rates among some groups and fewer immigrants because of the recession.

Condom sales, birth rates, transmitted disease and toys: The determinants of a sexy US city.

In contrast, Japan, France and Russia have negative birth rates, and the U. S. is slightly positive.

Condom sales, birth rates, transmitted disease and toys: The determinants of a sexy U. S. city.

They won't be in Europe, where birth rates fell comparatively gradually and now show some signs of ticking up.

Through a combination of less sex and more contraception, pregnancy and birth rates among US teenagers have been falling since about 1991.

Talk of IVF as a solution for declining birth rates is a sign that clueless governments are clutching at straws.

Birth rates are falling dramatically across Latin America, especially in Mexico, suggesting a tidal shift in migration patterns.

Older programs have established live birth rates based on years of experience.

Stronger health systems, girls' education among factors that contribute to fewer maternal deaths, lower birth rates.

However, in 35 of the world's poor countries, birth rates remain high, with an average of more than five children per mother.

Ms Coronado notes that household size shrank over recent decades first as birth rates declined, then as baby boomers' children moved out.

But however birth rates and migration patterns change, America's geographical size will be a huge advantage.

The country has one of the world's lowest birth rates, lower even than neighbouring Japan.

Flat birth rates in developed economies have put pressure on durable consumer-goods companies desperate for top-line growth.

In most European nations, and also in countries like Japan and China, birth rates have already fallen below replacement levels.

Others include low birth rates, pension and health-care reforms, corruption and weak public administration.

Pregnancy rates, and more importantly live birth rates, are influenced by a number of factors, especially the woman's age.

It is also important to understand the definitions of pregnancy rates and live birth rates.

This paper describes the research that reported cesarean birth rates for certified nurse-midwives.

The most devastating statistic of them all: child mortality rates have skyrocketed while birth rates have declined.

Birth rates must equal death rates, and production rates of commodities must equal depreciation rates.

Inother words, a planet that grays indefinitely is clearly asking for trouble. But birth rates don't have to plummet forever.

This is why we dont have to maintain growing human birth rates- humans labour can be replaced by machine (robot) labour.

Along with education, income and health care, the decline in birth rates correlates closely with urbanization.

Each year the government tries to predict the demand for new teachers, looking at birth rates, migration and retirement from the profession.

It can be concluded from the graph that there has been a great decline in birth rates in China in the past five years.

Therefore, live birth rates per cycle are higher per egg retrieval and are highest per embryo transfer.

S. New research published in Nature this week shows that birth rates in the most developed countries are rising again.

This mindset may well maintainhigh birth rates, but with consequences that today are unacceptable to all butthe most rigid fundamentalists.

As world nears 7 billion population mark, high birth rates deter nations from achieving better maternal and child health outcomes.

But more important is the decline in birth rates when people leave the countryside .

The increased value placed on the idea of the family also helps to explain this rise in birth rates.

European birthrates are not that much higher than Asian birth rates either.

There are plenty of reasons why reducing birth rates might not be desirable.

It is not just Asian countries that find it hard to boost birth rates once they are in decline.

Already there are signs of a revival in birth rates in France, Sweden, Britain and even Italy.

According to social conservatives, legal abortions are to blame for declining birth rates.

They are rare examples of bucking the trend that, as countries get richer, their birth rates fall.

Further complicating matters, we are seeing unprecedented declines in birth rates in some low-income countries.

This is partly a matter of birth rates; because the base is now so large, even relatively trivial changes produce enormous effects.

But more important is the decline in birth rates when people leavethecountryside.

Poverty and illiteracy go together with high birth rates.

The UK has one of the highest still-birth rates in the developed world. Every year here 4, 000 babies are still-born.

Experts already know that the birth rates of boys and girls vary across the globe.

Even in poor countries, birth rates are now falling fast.

There is also the issue of US commercial investments being affected by growing birth rates overseas.

This is partly due to declining birth rates, but life expectancy is also low due to alcohol abuse and poor healthcare.

Perhaps birth rates will bounce back.

RESULTS Clinical pregnancy and live birth rates were 58 and 56%, respectively.

It is a story about high birth rates and low birth rates.

Rapidly declining birth rates in most developing countries indicate women are gaining greater control over the size of their families.

The other is that India has higher birth rates, and hence a younger population.

This was the period of the baby-boom in America and Europe and of very high birth rates in developing countries.

Birth rates are low and so many of their people are already elderly.

Birth rates can rise (as they just have in Japan for the first time in years) as well as fall.

With just 9. 6 births per 1, 000 people, Hong Kong now has one of the world's lowest birth rates.

Analysis of international variations in birth rates

Experts say birth rates do appear to fall with economic declines,

The influence of geological factor on the birth rates of twins in China