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July 18, 2017Demographic ResearchOpen Access

The effect of contraception on fertility: Is sub-Saharan Africa different?

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Cross-sectional analyses of the relationship between contraceptive prevalence and the total fertility rate of developing countries show the expected strong negative correlation. However, this correlation is much weaker in Sub-Saharan Africa than in the dev

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John Bongaarts (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a22b673877bbd4bf8119ad4 https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2017.37.6

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