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In 2024, nearly 78 per cent of women aged 15–49 who wanted to avoid pregnancy used modern contraceptive methods. Despite this progress, more than 250 million women of reproductive age … Read more
Fecondity
Effects of first birth postponement and assisted reproductive technology on completed fertility
Two forces with a contrasting impact on fertility have typically been overestimated in both scientific writing and the popular press. A marked postponement of fertility (by four years of age) … Read more
The pace of fertility decline in Sub-Saharan Africa
Global social changes that diffuse across the world from country to country often proceed most quickly in those places that start last. Change in the pioneer regions is delayed by … Read more
Eradicating induced abortion? Lessons from 20th Century France
In France, for two decades – roughly from the late 1930s to the late 1950s – induced abortion was not only prohibited, it was well and truly the target of … Read more
Surprenante fécondité maghrébine
Au début des années 1970, la fécondité restait très élevée en Tunisie et au Maroc (6,5 enfants par femme) malgré les programmes de planning familial mis en œuvre au milieu … Read more