Contents:
  • Report of the United Nations Workshop on Prospects for Fertility Decline in High Fertility Countries
  • The demographic situation in high fertility countries / Population Division
  • Sociocultural factors affecting fertility in sub-Saharan Africa / Paulina Makinwa-Adebusoye
  • Impact of the proximate determinants on the future course of fertility in sub-Saharan Africa / Jean-Pierre Guengant, John F. May
  • Fertility preferences and contraceptive use: a profitable nexus for understanding the prospects for fertility decline in Africa / Francis Nii-Amoo Dodoo
  • Mistimed and unwanted childbearing in the course of fertility transition / Jacob A. Adetunji
  • A comparative analysis of the socio-economic correlates of fertility in Cameroon and the Central African Republic / Samson W. Wasao
  • Fertility decline in French-speaking Africa: recent and future trends / Soukeynatou Fall-Kaba, Pierre Ngom
  • Levels and trends of fertility in Oman and Yemen / Eltigani E. Eltigani
  • Trends in Angola's fertility / Victor Agadjanian, Ndola Prata
  • Fertility levels and differentials in the United Republic of Tanzania / Akim J. Mturi, Andrew Hinde
  • Prospects for fertility decline in the face of HIV/AIDS in Uganda / James P.M. Ntozi, Fred E. Ahimbisibwe
  • Prospects for fertility decline in Nigeria: comparative analysis of the 1990 and 1999 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey data / Muyiwa Oladosu
  • Fertility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo / David Shapiro, B. Oleko Tambashe
  • Fertility in Pakistan: past, present and future / Zeba A. Sathar
  • Fertility in rural Africa: some indicators for analysis of demographic change among the Mossi of Burkina Faso / Christine Ouedraogo.