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The US National Academy of Sciences Panel on the Population Dynamics of Sub-Saharan Africa met for the first time in February 1990 in Washington, DC to launch a major initiative aimed at deepening understanding of demographic change in the subcontinent. The initiative produced a total seven volumes, including a set of reports providing an in-depth analysis of various aspects of African socioeconomic and demographic trends and two countryspecific reports. These showed that, outside of South Africa where the transition was well established, fertility remained very high (generally above 6 children per woman) in much of the continent but that unquestionable signs of country-level decline were visible in a few countries such as Kenya and Zimbabwe.
Cheikh Mbacké (Fri,) studied this question.