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Article: Fertility rates and gross national incomes per capita
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- Canadian Medical Association. Journal
- Article date:
- October 9, 2007
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Recently the World Health Organization reported 2005 fertility rates per woman and gross national incomes per capita from its 193 member countries.1 Figure 1 shows these data for the 20 countries with the highest and lowest fertility rates for which gross national income data were available and for the G7 countries (Canada, United States, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Japan) for comparison.
Countries with the highest fertility rates per woman tended to have a much lower gross national income per capita than countries with the lowest fertility rates. They also tended to be or to have recently been politically unstable. (The fertility rates ...