Infant mortality and birth rates
capítulo de libro

Date
1994-12Author
Hanson, Lars Ake
Bergstrom, Staffan
Rosero Bixby, Luis
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It has been suggested that decreasing infant
mortality is a prerequisite for decreasing birth
rates and the experience in several countries
shows that decreasing infant mortality rates
are indeed followed by declining birth rates.
Actually, industrialised countries with their
low infant mortality have low birth rates. In
contrast, the highest birth rates are found in
countries with the highest infant mortality
(Tables 5.1a and b).1 A few developing countries,
such as Sri Lanka, China and Costa Rica,
have managed to decrease the child death
rates substantially.2 This has been followed
(or preceded) by a decline in birth rates to
some of the lowest levels among developing
countries. — But is this a true connection?
Capítulo de libro -- Universidad de Costa Rica, Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud. 1994