fertility in sub-Saharan Africa whose population is forecast to more than double in the next 40 years and by a modest rise of 23 … fertility rates in the next few decades because they will determine the number of potential reproducers in the second half of … stabilisation. Unchanged fertility implies a global population of 25 billion by the end of the century. In the next few decades the …

Dominant paradigms of fertility choice either ignore or assume small, unchanging costof fertility limitation. Inspired … between “traditional†and “modern†contraception. The modern has a higher fixedcost (reflecting social opprobrium) but a … diffusion process. Eventuallyeveryone switches lowering fertility further and across society. What hastens the switch isthe …

to maternal care by residence and wealth quintiles. Moreover fertility reduction has been slow at 3.3 in 2012 and … Delivery Standard for quality services; and improving maternal and child nutrition. Fertility reduction has been slow at 3.3 in …

100,000 live births, representing a 65 percent decline from 1990. Fertility fell to 2.5, while contraceptive prevalence …; improving antenatal, intranatal, and postnatal care; strengthening monitoring and evaluation (M and E) systems and reducing …