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Fertility
Is low fertility bottoming out?
Dermot Grenham | 20 October 2009
A recent article in Nature1 has shown that at higher levels of development the fall in fertility goes into reverse. Could this be the answer to the problem of ageing populations?
Britain’s new baby boom
Carolyn Moynihan | 04 September 2009
In Britain the average birth rate fell to 1.63 in 2001, but since then it has leapt to 1.96 (2008) -- nearly back to “replacement” level.
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