By Crystol Caesar
Shaquille Elliot
 Definition
of Fertility Rate
 Factors influencing Fertility Rate
 Video Depicting Factors
 Measurement of Fertility
Rate(Aspects)
 Graph showing Total Fertility Rate
 Replacement Fertility
 Case Study Of Canada
 References
What is
Fertility Rate?
 The
total fertility rate is referred to as the
average number of children a woman is likely
to have if she lives to the end of her child
bearing age, based on current birth rates
 Status
of Women
 Perception of
children as an
impediment
 Religion & Culture
 Cost of Living
 Advances in
Technology
 Families being more
career-minded
 Options given to
woman- Policy
 General
Fertility Rate (GFR)
 Age Specific Fertility Rate (ASFR)
 Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
 Number
of live births per 1000 women age
15-49 in a given year
 Number
of births/year
Number of women
ages 15 to 49
* 1000
 Number
of births per year per 1000 women
of a specific age (group)
 Number
of births to a woman age a *1000
Number of women age a
 The
average number of children that would
be born to a woman by the time she ended
childbearing if she were to pass through all
her childbearing years conforming to the
age-specific fertility rates of a given year
 Number
of women * 1000
Number of births

Average number of daughters that would
be born to a woman if she passed through
her life-time from birth to the end of her
reproductive years conforming to the agespecific fertility and mortality rates of a
given year
 Replacement
fertility is the total fertility
rate at which women would have only
enough children to replace themselves and
their partner.
 Replacement
Level Fertility is said to have
been reached when NRR=1.0
Canada
Africa
 Canada
can be considered as an MEDC which
from past studies it can be seen that
countries falling in this bracket tend to have
a low fertility rate. In 2002 Canada recorded
a fertility rate of 1.51. It however rose to
1.59 in 2006
 Reasons

Gender, work and childbearing


Low participation by men in household with children
Work & childbearing


for low fertility rate
TFR fast declining as women’s employment rate was
increasing (1960 to 1985)
Childbearing by marital status, employment
status & family structure


Competition with other life goals e.g. careers
Achievement of ideal family size
 Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health: Data Sources and Crude Indicators of
Fertility
 Google images
 Case Study (Canada) : Low fertility rate in
Canada – rbeaujot@uwo.ca
 Geography : An Integrated Approach, David
Waugh