through natural increase. There are now more African than European immigrants living in France. Fertility was practically … stable in 2011 (2.01 children per woman), but the lifetime fertility of the 1971-1972 cohorts reached a historic low in … metropolitan France (1.99 children per woman), nevertheless remaining among the highest in Europe. Abortion levels remained stable …

the geographical location, the education of mothers, the structure by age of children and the access to collective health … services and education influence the nutrition of children, coefficients of the weight_for_age and the chronic malnutrition … - although, in this last case, boys are relatively more favored than girls. Similarly, the increase of women education and the …

-1996, completed fertility may decrease to less than 2 children per woman born around 1970 and remain constant about 1.9 children per …, we assume that future behaviours will remain identical to the ones observed in 1995-1996, when fertility was quite low … estimated in 1996-1998, years of higher fertility. Results are found to be very consistent with the previous ones. …

are consistent with a fertility of 1.9 children per woman, which corresponds to the observed fertility since 2000, and an … average age at birth of 30 years. For women, simulations lead to satisfactory results for completed fertility, fertility rate …