rld countries, declining fertility rates are still high but have seen dramatic improvement over the past few decades. As Wattenberg (1998) reports, over the past three decades the average fertility rate of women in Third World countries has declined with record-breaking speed from 6.2 to 3.0.
Despite the fact that most of the worldÆs population lives in Third World countries and despite the fact that all of the highest fertility rates are in Third World countries, there have been dramatic improvements in some Third World countries in fertility rate reduction. In Bangladesh, fertility fell from 6.2 to 3.57
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