fertility decline
Falling reproduction rates
Fertility decline is a sustained decrease in the number of children born per woman in a population.
Demographers track this through metrics like total fertility rate.
Most industrialized nations have experienced fertility decline over the past century, often falling below replacement level: Japan's fertility decline has created an aging crisis.
The phrase appears in discussions of economic policy, immigration, and social change.
- birth rateLive deliveries per thousand
- baby bustDeclining birthrate period
- population agingIncreasing median societal years
- gender equalityEqual treatment regardless sex
- reproductive healthMedical care for procreation
biological clock · ticking clock · contraceptive use · mortality rate · hormonal changes · maternal health · population pyramid · employment rates · genetic factors · childlessness · career women · urbanization · healthcare accessibility · immigration policies · poverty rates · economic development · prenatal care · population density
fertility declinebaby boom
Period of high births
population explosion · population boom · population growth · overpopulation
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