A report on Income and fertility
Association between monetary gain on one hand, and the tendency to produce offspring on the other.
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Fertility
1 linksCapability to produce offspring through reproduction following the onset of sexual maturity.
Capability to produce offspring through reproduction following the onset of sexual maturity.
Factors generally associated with decreased fertility include wealth, education, female labor participation, urban residence, cost of housing, intelligence, increased female age and (to a lesser degree) increased male age.
Total fertility rate
1 linksObtained by summing the single-year age-specific rates at a given time.
Obtained by summing the single-year age-specific rates at a given time.
Factors generally associated with decreased fertility include rising income, value and attitude changes, education, female labor participation, population control, age, contraception, partner reluctance to having children, a low level of gender equality, and infertility.The effect of all these factors can be summarized with a plot of Total Fertility Rate against Human Development Index (HDI) for a sample of countries.
Sub-replacement fertility
0 linksTotal fertility rate that (if sustained) leads to each new generation being less populous than the older, previous one in a given area.
Total fertility rate that (if sustained) leads to each new generation being less populous than the older, previous one in a given area.
This is part of the fertility-income paradox, as these high fertility countries are very poor, and it may seem counter-intuitive for families there to have so many children.