THE FERTILITY DECLINE IN DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES

被引：44

作者：

ROBEY, B ^{[1
]}

RUTSTEIN, SO ^{[1
]}

MORRIS, L ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] CTR DIS CONTROL,ATLANTA,GA 30333

来源：

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | 1993年 / 269卷 / 06期

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D O I：

10.1038/scientificamerican1293-60

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

As prosperity increases, family size declines and a population achieves stable size. At least that is the way it happened in many Western countries. But surveys in Third World nations have shown that economic improvement is not a necessary precondition of falling birth rates. Access to contraception as well as changes in cultural values ad education has caused fertility to decrease there.

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页码：60 / 67

页数：8