Fertility decline below replacement fertility in Asian countries

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Fertility has been declining very fast most countries of the world over the past 40 years, and it continues to decline almost everywhere. As a result, fertility has reached quite unexpectedly low levels in many countries. Currently, about half of the world's population is living in countries with fertility at, or below replacement levels. The paper concentrates on the present fertility decline in some Asian countries, because it has largely characterized the Asian population transition over the later part of the last century. Beginning with the initiation of Japan's transition in the 1930s, fertility declines in other Asian countries soon followed, with levels in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore beginning to fall by the 1960s. The latter part of the 1960s and the 1970s heralded the beginning of transitions in the major Chinese and South Korean cities, as well as the Chinese populations in Southeast Asia … celý popis

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Enkhtsetseg Byambaa

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Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Geographica. -- ISSN 0300-5402. -- Vol. 36, no. 1 (2001), s. 135-139

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plodnost > Asie > 20. století, 2. polovina

fertility

fertility decline

replacement level

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