With the world running out of resources and struggling to sustain the recent boom in world population, governments around the world have been responding by trying to curb population growth with population programmes. Fertility Transition is a process whereby a country changes from a high birth rate to lower birth rate and is measured in terms of number of live births per 1000 women. This process usually occurs when a country is developing. Countries which are undergoing fertility transition in recent years have undergone a much more rapid transformation than when the present day developed economies underwent transition a couple hundred years ago. High fertility is often associated with poverty as there is a lack of education, healthcare and lack of sustainability within a country. The reasons which cause a country to experience fertility transition include; the changing of economy structure or economic growth, investment in education and the provision/subsidisation of contraception.
Cuba is a government planned economy with poor economic prospects and a low fertility rate of 1.46 in 2014, down from 4.6% in 1963. Following the Cuban revolution, the was a big peak in fertility as doctors whom over saw abortions left the country and a US embargo led to a big shortage in the availability of contraception. The newfound communist government provided family planning as well as allowing pharmacies to sell oral contraceptives and condoms without the need of a prescription.
In order to determine which stage of the Demographic Transition a country is in, you must know what the demographic transition is, what each stage is and how to know if a country is in that stage. The Demographic Transition is a process of change in a society’s population. Stage 1 of the demographic transition is low population growth. If a country is in stage one of the demographic transition that country would have a high Crude Birth Rate(CBR) and a high Crude Death Rate(CDR) that together would produce a low natural increase. Stage 2 of the demographic transition is high growth. If a country is in stage two of the demographic transition, the country would have a declining CDR and a very high CBR that together would produce a high natural
Later on around the 1975 document 7 states that Cuba adopted a Family Code “Now in Cuba there is a Family Code that guarantees the equal rights of women in their homes.” So their daughter’s could go to school if they wanted to parents could leave their small children at daycares. But if a girl got pregnant and had to leave instead of giving them maternity leave they hand them a resignation. In document 6 it tells us about a girl who got expelled from medical school because she had to go on maternity leave “I asked for maternity leave and received instead a resolution whereby I had been expelled for having abandon my field of study.” So if a girl went to school she had to be devoted to whatever it was that she was studying. The revolution was actually a good thing because in document 8 it shows some data about the illiteracy and EAP rates in Cuba from before the revolution in 1953 to during the revolution in 1982 and it shows that the
In chapter 4, Andaya (2014) discusses abortion and abortion access in Cuba, stating that it is one of the most used methods of birth control in Cuba (Andaya, pp. 68-86). The chapter vaguely gives an explanation for the high
Cuba is located in Central America and the Caribbean. The type of government Cuba has is a communist government, so the government plans and controls the economy. The top three exports for Cuba are NESOI items, pharmaceuticals, and tobacco. The top three imports are machinery, fuel, and tobacco. Cuba's GDP goes up about 3% annually and overall, Cuba's government is steadily increasing each year. The population in Cuba is 11,027,000. Cuba’s health per capita is roughly $1,828. Cuba is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds. The majority of Cubans descend from spaniards.
The demographic transition theory is a widespread explanation of the changing mold of humanity, fertility and increase rates as civilizations move from one demographic system to another. “The term was first coined by the American demographer Frank W. Notestein in the mid-twentieth century, but it has since been elaborated and expanded upon by many others” (The Demographic Transition, 2012). There are four stages of demographic transition.
Although, machismo is still common, today, most women work outside of the home. Also, the use of contraceptives, birth control, and abortions are on demand for all in Cuba.
Abortion in Cuba is being overused by teen agers, the population is getting lower, and there are more adults
Demographic transition is the process by which a nation/country moves from high birth rate and high death rates to low birth and low death rates as the growth population in the interim (Weeks, 2005). Some of the nations that have gone through this transitions are; Canada, Germany, United States and England. The demographic transition to an industrialized society is harmful to the environment. Industrialized countries also have the largest ecological and carbon footprint comparative to developing/non-industrialized nations. Nevertheless, demographic transitions have some notable advantages. Countries that have gone through demographic transitions have low birth and death rates. Citizens in
* According to demographers, what factors lead to a decline in the crude birth rates (CBR) and crude death rates (CDR) in the epidemiologic and fertility phases of the demographic transition? ·
A demographic transition is the transition from a populace with high conception rates and passing rates to a populace that is steady, yet with a much lower level of conception and demise rates.
The hesitation that couples have and the higher use of contraceptives has also impacted this demographic transition. According to, Population Education “The rate of decline is dependent on economic and social factors at play- the quicker gains are made in areas such as education and gender equality, the faster birth rates decline” (Grover, 2014). It is easily noticeable that as couples choose to allow money to dictate the decisions they make, in particularly having a kid, the less births will
The fertility rate of a country measures the average number of children capable of being born per woman. The rate gives an idea of the future growing or declining population trend. For Liberia the number stands at 4.7 children born per woman. The number is an indication that the population is growing and increasingly becoming younger. As stated earlier, people under the age of 14 comprises over 40% of the total population, which coincides with the younger growing trend predicted by the fertility
In modern society, the phenomenon of declining fertility is visible in many countries and is not only confined to South Korea and Japan. However, the phenomenon of low natality is more likely to be found in developed countries such as South Korea and Japan, which stand 219th and 220th, respectively, out of 224 countries according to the birth rate chart of the CIA World Factbook recorded in 2013. The low birth rate below the replacement rate 2.0 is expected to be more critical to small countries like South Korea and Japan because of limited natural resources and scarcity of manpower. South Korea and Japan share many characteristics to foreign people because they are neighboring countries who had many cultural and trade exchanges in the past. When it comes to comparing and contrasting the declining fertility in both countries, most of the characteristics are considerably similar when viewed from the big picture but different when looked in detail. This research paper will begin by providing a brief description about when low fertility society began. Then, the paper will primarily focus on three subjects: significant factors of fertility change, problems aroused by low fertility, and possible solutions such as policies suggested by their governments.
Demography is the study of the components of population variation and change. Death rate and birth rate are two determinants of population change. Theory of Demographic Transition is comparatively recent theory that has been accepted by several scholars throughout the world. This theory embraces the observation that all countries in the world go through different stages in the growth of population. A nation's economy and level of development is directly related to that nation's birth and death rates. Population history can be divided into different stages. Some of the scholars have divided it into three and some scholars have divided it into five stages. These stages or classifications demonstrate a
To begin, firstly fertility or fertility rate must first be understood. Fertility rate is “the actual level of childbearing of an individual or population.” (Oxford Dictionary of Sociology, pg. 254). Fertility control is seen as a method which “ensures development by limiting the quantity of natural, financial and other resources to be spent on the economically inactive.” (Sociology for Caribbean Studies, pg. 321). Demographers believe the concept that in each country there is an ‘optimum population’ in which there are sufficient resources in