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Fertility Decline in Paraguay
Studies in Family Planning, 09/01/09

Ishida K et al. – Decomposition of rates shows that changes in group–specific CPRs explain a greater proportion of the change in the overall CPR than do changes in population composition by educational attainment, urban residence, region, and language spoken at home. Finally, the authors show that younger cohorts of women in 2004 reported ideal completed fertility desires of less than 2.9 births, suggesting that the fertility rate is likely to continue to decrease.

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Kanako Ishida, 09/01/09

The most recent Paraguay Reproductive Health Survey, conducted in 2008, shows that women in union who use contraceptives increased from 73% in 2004 to 79% in 2008, and the fertility continue to decline as expected: the fertitliy rate is 2.9 lifetime births per woman based on the 2008 survey.

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