The Philippines has the highest fertility rate in the region, a whopping 3.23 births per female.
The country's fertility rate, the number of children a woman typically produces, is only 1.4.
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One RAND study suggested that Social Security depresses the American fertility rate by as much as 0.5.
The fertility rate, 1.74 in 1980, climbed a bit later in that decade, but has fallen since.
The fertility rate has risen to 1.66, still below the replacement level but higher than the national average.
According to the UN's population division, the nationwide fertility rate will continue to decline, reaching 1.51 in 2015-20.
The U.S. has a total fertility rate (TFR) of 2.0 nearly the replacement rate with Hispanic immigrants leading in birth rates.
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In countries with the lowest marriage rates, the fertility rate is nearer 1.0.
Israeli Jewish women have the highest fertility rate in the Western world with an average of three children per woman.
Although America benefits greatly from immigration, its fertility rate has actually consistently been sub-replacement for almost all of the past 20 years.
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This is mainly why the fertility rate in Bangladesh has crashed from 6.1 births per woman in 1980 to 3.4 births today.
Over 80% of humanity lives in countries where the fertility rate is either below three and falling, or already two or less.
The fertility rate (the number of children per woman during her lifetime) fell below 1.3 last year, down from 3.65 in 1950.
Around 1985, America's fertility rate bottomed out and began to rise again.
The American fertility rate is around the replacement rate of 2.1, compared with 1.4 for Germany and Italy, where populations are in decline.
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The total fertility rate had been 5.8 in 1950, he notes, and had declined sharply to 2.3 by 1980, just above replacement level.
Take Bangladesh, a country mired in poverty yet with a fertility rate only slightly higher than America thanks to a progressive family-planning policy.
The U.S. replacement total fertility rate was higher than 2.1 children per woman in the 1800s and early 1900s due to childhood mortality.
One result is a fertility rate, 1.5 births per woman, more typical of rich countries than of what Cuba still is, the third world.
Taiwan, which the government in Beijing regards as an integral part of China, cut its fertility rate as much as China without population controls.
The fertility rate of the Chinese segment of our population is the lowest, 1.08 (2011), with the rate for Indians 1.09 and for Malays 1.64.
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America's fertility rate is 50% higher than Russia's, Germany's and Italy's.
Similarly, in Zambia the economy has grown by an average 5% a year since 2001 while the fertility rate has also risen from 5.9 to 6.2.
He said the Hispanic population in particular is very young, much more concentrated in child-bearing years, and has a higher fertility rate than the white, non-Hispanic population.
They knew that China's fertility rate, or the average number of children born to each woman, was in decline even before the one-child policy began in 1980.
At the same time, the fertility rate (the number of children an average woman will have in a lifetime) is now 1.39, well below the replacement level.
China's fertility rate may be much lower than official estimates.
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The fertility rate had dropped to 2.7 in 1979 from 5.5 in 1970 due to a policy encouraging people to marry later, wait longer between children, and have fewer babies.
In the process, the U.S. fertility rate dropped from over 2.1 births per woman in 2007 to 1.9 last year, below replacement rate for the first time since the mid-1980s.
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