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Latest items for BR-DATA-1

July 10, 2023, 9:26 p.m.
Countries: Maldives
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"...the total fertility rate has decreased over the last decade with women on average having 2:1 children…"(6). "Maldives Demographic Health Survey shows age specific fertility rate (ASFR) of 10 per 1000 women remains the same for age group 15–19 2009 and 2016/2017 survey." (7). "The TFR has decreased over the years to a woman on average having 21 children per woman, which means that the Maldives has reached what is known as replacement level fertility, or the level at which population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next." (23). "Total Fertility Rate has dropped from 2.5 in 2009 to 2.1 in 2016/17." (25).
June 20, 2023, 9:30 p.m.
Countries: Nicaragua
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"[T]he birth rate is 21% per 1,000 inhabitants…"(3). ". A total of 1,214,121 births in health facilities were recorded by the Ministry of Health between 2007 and 2016. The proportion of assisted births rose from 51.5 percent in 2006 to 96 percent in 2018." (23).
June 14, 2023, 7:56 p.m.
Countries: Bolivia
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"Six out of ten women over the age of 15 are mothers, equivalent to 58.7%, or over 2,000,000 [of the overall population]" (2). This indicates the fertility rate of women in Bolivia (MV- coder comment).
May 18, 2023, 11:04 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"Births in Italy dropped to a new historic low below 400,000 in 2022, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, as the population continued to shrink. Italy's dearth of babies is considered a national emergency, and fixing the problem was a prominent policy pledge by Giorgia Meloni ahead of last year's election which saw her become the country's first woman prime minister." (Para.1-2). "Last year [2021] Italy recorded more than 12 deaths for every seven births and the resident population fell by 179,000 to 58.85 million, ISTAT said in its annual demographic report" (Para.3). "Italy recorded 392,600 births in 2022, down from 400,249 the previous year, ISTAT said, the 14th...more
March 18, 2023, 10:20 p.m.
Countries: Ethiopia
Variables: DACH-DATA-2, IM-DATA-1, MABFC-DATA-1, BR-DATA-1

Table 1 untitled, shows that the indicator/year 2010/11 has an ANC of 34%, 10% skill delivery, 7% postnatal care, 676 / 100,000 maternal mortality, 59 / 1000 child mortality, 29% contraceptive prevalence, 4.8 fertility rate and 79 / 1000 adolescent birth rate. It also shows that for the indicator/year 2014/15, there was an ANC of 96.9%, 60.7% skilled delivery, 90% postnatal care, 420 / 100,000 maternal mortality, decrease in child mortality to 55 / 1000, contraceptive prevalence increased to 46%, significant increase of fertility rate to 401, and a reduction in the adolescent birth rate to 65/1000. Maternal mortality decreased by 256/100,000, child mortality decreased by 4/1000 (18).more
Feb. 27, 2023, 1:02 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"A 2022 survey found that more women than men — 65 percent versus 48 percent — don’t want children. They’re doubling down by avoiding matrimony (and its conventional pressures) altogether. The other term in South Korea for birth strike is 'marriage strike.' The trend is killing South Korea. For three years in a row, the country has recorded the lowest fertility rate in the world, with women of reproductive age having fewer than one child on average. It reached the 'dead cross,' when deaths outnumbered births, in 2020, nearly a decade earlier than expected." (para 2-3). "Now, about half of the country’s 228 cities, counties and districts risk losing so...more
Feb. 18, 2023, 11:13 a.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"The rate in the country first dropped lower than one child per woman in 2018. But on Wednesday, figures released by the government showed the figure had dropped to 0.81 - down from 0.84 the previous year, and a sixth consecutive decline.In comparison, the average rate across the world's most advanced economies is 1.6 children.Countries need at least two children per couple - a 2.1 rate - to keep their population at the same size, without migration. Fertility rates have "declined markedly" in the past six decades says the OECD -Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.But the trend has been particularly pronounced in South Korea, where family sizes have reduced...more
Feb. 5, 2023, 9:19 p.m.
Countries: Turkey
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"Demographic concerns may have been the driving force behind the law. Ottomans living in cities bore few children. According to the 1885 census, the birthrate in Istanbul was 1.35; it remained behind preindustrial European levels into the 20th century. Most Ottoman women were home-schooled, spent their early youth in the family house, married late in life and bore their last babies in their mid-30s. The deaths of millions of Ottoman citizens in World War I left the new Republic of Turkey, born in 1923, short of a robust population." (para 16). "The demand for higher birthrates was also the outcome of centralized planning efforts of the Turkish state. Since 1963,...more
Feb. 4, 2023, 6:14 p.m.
Countries: Namibia
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"Women’s right to reproductive health is recognised and protected by government. Family Planning services are provided for free to all sexually active individuals in all health facilities in the country. As a result of free family planning services, the national fertility has declined from 4.2 in 2000 to 3.6 in 2006, but has remained static at 3.6 in 2013 Namibia Demographic Health Survey (NDHS). It is higher in rural areas (4.3) compared to urban (2.8)." (36).
Jan. 16, 2023, 10:15 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"In 2018, Salvini said Italy’s birth rate – the lowest in Europe – was being used as an excuse to 'import immigrants'" (para 44).
Jan. 12, 2023, 7:31 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"Most women in England and Wales no longer have a child before they are 30, official figures show for the first time. An Office for National Statistics (ONS) report found 50.1 per cent of women born in 1990 were childless by their 30th birthday. It is the first time there has been more childless women than mothers below the age of 30 since records dating back to 1920 began." (para 1-3). "'Lower levels of fertility in those currently in their 20s indicate that this trend is likely to continue.'" (para 13). "The report found 18 per cent of women aged 45 were childless by 2020." (para 15). Graph 1 is...more
July 1, 2022, 11:43 a.m.
Countries: East Timor
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"Regarding fertility, despite a decrease from an average of 5.7 children in 2009-10 to 4.2 children in 2016,241 the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) remains among the highest rates in the region" (36).
June 28, 2022, 2:56 p.m.
Countries: Bangladesh
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"The fertility rate has declined over time, from 6.3 children per woman in 1975 to 2.3 in 2017-18. Of the eight divisions in Bangladesh, three (Khulna, Rajshahi, and Rangpur) have achieved a replacement- level fertility rate (2.1 or fewer children per woman)" (xix). "Total fertility rate: The total fertility rate (TFR) for 3 years preceding the survey (2015-17) is 2.3 children per woman, also shown by the 2019 MICS survey of BBS. The TFR has not changed since 2011. The objective of the 4th Health, Population and Nutrition Sector Program (HPNSP) is to reduce TFR of 2.0 by 2022. Three divisions, Khulna, Rajshahi, and Rangpur, have achieved a replacement-level fertility...more
June 14, 2022, 5:24 p.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"In 2014, the fertility rate in Greenland was barely 2.2 children per woman. The fertility rate has declined gradually over the past decades. In 1970, women gave birth to 2.7 children per woman" (39). "...[T]he Faroe Islands have the highest birthrate of any Nordic country, with 2.5 children per woman in the age group between 15 and 49 years of age" (47).
May 27, 2022, 4:14 p.m.
Countries: Turkey
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"The total fertility rate is 1,88 according to 2019 TURKSTAT data" (24). "Within the scope of fight against early marriages, the fertility rate among adolescents in Turkey (average live births per 1.000 women between 15–19 age group) has declined to 17 per thousand in 2019 while it was 49 per thousand in 2001" (24).
May 16, 2022, 8:09 p.m.
Countries: Suriname
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"To measure progress with regard to increased access to reproductive health, data has been gathered on the contraceptive prevalence rate, the adolescence birth rate, antenatal care and needs for family planning" (30). "Because both the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) and the General Fertility Rate (GFR) fluctuated between 2000 and 2007, there is no clear indication whether fertility has increased or decreased in this period. The Gross Reproduction Rate (GRR) for 2007 was 1.19" (30). "Data provided by the most recent 2012 Census enables a comparison between 2011 and 2012: the adolescent birth rate decreased from 58.0 births for women aged 15 19 years in 2011 to 51.9 births for the...more
March 9, 2022, 8:57 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"from 1961 to 2005, there has been the record of halving the average number of children per woman, along with the increased average maternal age at first birth" (12). "Italy is characterised by a greater life expectancy, as a result of the increase in the elderly, 'big seniors' and a slight rise of the child-birth rate, depending mainly on the birth of foreign babies in Italy" (83). "we have witnessed in recent years a marked decrease in the birth rate. Currently, the average number of children per Italian is 1.2: a figure among the lowest in the world" (83). "As for spontaneous abortion, the phenomenon is increasing: The figure of...more
July 17, 2021, 10:03 p.m.
Countries: Philippines
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"As of 2019, the Philippines recorded 55 births annually per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19, according to the World Bank. To put that in perspective, the global average for that age group is 41.6 births per 1,000 women, according to the World Bank; in the US, that figure is 16.7. 'We have so many 15-year-olds who give birth in our wards, and their partners are 30, even 40 years old," said Madrid. "When we look at our statistics in our women and children's protection units (in hospitals) ... we find that the age where we have the highest incidence of sexual abuse is 13 to 15. It's a mountain...more
July 16, 2021, 1:54 p.m.
Countries: Vietnam
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"The whole city [Hanoi] has achieved alternative birth rates (the average number of children per woman of childbearing age TFR: 2.1 children, the birth rate decreased annually, but not evenly, since the birth rate in 18 districts / towns remains high)" (para 4). "The number of births in the whole city in 2020 is 121,639 children, the birth rate reached 14.75% which is down 0.25% compared to 2019 (exceeding the target). The number of births of the third child or more was 8,382 children, reaching a rate of 6.89% up 0.39% compared to 2019" (para 5). "The average number of children per woman of childbearing age has plummeted from 6.39...more
June 25, 2021, 9:20 p.m.
Countries: Finland
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"The number of babies born in Finland has been dropping for the past nine years. Last year, 45,597 babies were born in the country— the lowest number since a famine struck in 1868." (Para 8)
June 25, 2021, 6:09 p.m.
Countries: China
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"Birthrates in minority-dominated counties in the region plummeted from 2015 to 2018, based on Mr. Zenz’s calculations. Several of these counties have stopped publishing population data, but Mr. Zenz calculated that the birthrates in minority areas probably continued to fall in 2019 by just over 50 percent from 2018, based on figures from other counties" (para 26).
June 9, 2021, 8:43 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"According to the data of the World Health Organization (WHO), around 60–80 million couples in the world are permanently or periodically affected by this problem. It is estimated that in high-developed countries the problem of infertility concerns 10–12 per cent of population of women and men of reproductive age. In Poland, this percentage is similar, which means that there are between 1.2 and 1.3 million couples faced with infertility" (65).
April 26, 2021, 11:49 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"from 1961 to 2005, there has been the record of halving the average number of children per woman, along with the increased average maternal age at first birth" (12). "Italy is characterised by a greater life expectancy, as a result of the increase in the elderly, 'big seniors' and a slight rise of the child-birth rate, depending mainly on the birth of foreign babies in Italy" (83). "we have witnessed in recent years a marked decrease in the birth rate. Currently, the average number of children per Italian is 1.2: a figure among the lowest in the world" (83). "As for spontaneous abortion, the phenomenon is increasing: The figure of...more
March 19, 2021, 3:56 p.m.
Countries: Israel
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"The adolescent birth rate from 2010-2018 in Israel is 9.9 per 1000 women aged 15-19 years" (p 52).
March 19, 2021, 3:56 p.m.
Countries: Zimbabwe
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"The adolescent birth rate from 2010-2018 in Zimbabwe is 77.6 per 1000 women aged 15-19 years" (p 56).
March 19, 2021, 3:56 p.m.
Countries: Chad
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"The adolescent birth rate from 2010-2018 in Chad is 179.4 per 1000 women aged 15-19 years" (p 50).
March 19, 2021, 3:56 p.m.
Countries: Burkina Faso
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"The adolescent birth rate from 2010-2018 in Burkina Faso is 132.3 per 1000 women aged 15-19 years" (p 50).
March 19, 2021, 3:56 p.m.
Countries: Belize
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"The adolescent birth rate from 2010-2018 in Belize is 64.3 per 1000 women aged 15-19 years" (p 50).
March 19, 2021, 3:56 p.m.
Countries: Vietnam
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"The adolescent birth rate from 2010-2018 in Vietnam is 30.1 per 1000 women aged 15-19 years" (p 56).
March 19, 2021, 3:56 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"The adolescent birth rate from 2010-2018 in Poland is 11.1 per 1000 women aged 15-19 years" (p 54).