This study discusses fertility trends and variation in countries that have completed the transition from high to around …-replacement fertility in the 1950s-1980s - especially in Europe, East Asia and North America - and summarises the key findings that are … relevant for the countries with a more recent experience of fertility declines towards replacement level. A central finding is …

population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into … future economic growth - when fertility is going to be below replacement level in virtually all fully developed countries …

The aim of this paper is to check the quality of fertility data collected through Demographic and Health Surveys in … Egypt between 1988 and 2014. We are particularly interested to assess whether fertility changes observed since 2000 that … point at a stall in fertility decline followed by a substantial increase between 2008 and 2014 are real and not due to …

determine the final population trend. The period fertility rates are not relevant to ultimate population size in the case of … formal demography and can be applied to the fertility transition modeling, population forecasting, and population genetics. …

–birth probabilities in Austria over the period 1984 to 2004. Moreover, we apply our model to forecast age-specific fertility rates up to …

for countries outside Europe suggest a global spread of two-child preferences, also in many countries where the fertility …

This paper discusses results of the global survey of experts on the future of low fertility in low-fertility countries … produce global argumentbased population projections by age, sex and level of education. First we give an overview of fertility … changes in major low-fertility regions. Next we outline main theoretical arguments and review a wide range of factors …

We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa …

This study provides a systematic analysis of parity components of the cohort fertility decline in 32 low-fertility … countries in Europe, North America, Australia and East Asia. We decompose the change in cohort fertility in each country among … whether it was different in countries reaching very low completed fertility. The fall in fertility was mostly driven by …