Title: [Demographic perspectives and contraception (author's transl)].
Abstract:Although French population increased between 1954 and 1977, the increase continuously slowed down during the past 15 years, a sure sign of fertility rate decline. Since mortality rate and migratory mo...Although French population increased between 1954 and 1977, the increase continuously slowed down during the past 15 years, a sure sign of fertility rate decline. Since mortality rate and migratory movements have been stable in France for the past 10 years, and birth rate has decreased, the replacement of population depends now solely on fertility rate. Contraception in France is practiced by about 1/3 of women in fertile age, a percentage much too low to use contraception as the cause for low fertility rate. 2 children is considered the ideal family size by most French couples; not enough, however, to assure a national demographic stabilization. Population growth estimations have shown that if every woman had 2.6 children, in the year 2100 the total French population would be 131 millions, corresponding to a population density of 231/Km, a density much inferior to that of Germany, Holland, and Belgium.Read More
Publication Year: 1980
Publication Date: 1980-02-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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