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SUBMITTER: Gietel-Basten S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6886770 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gietel-Basten Stuart S Scherbov Sergei S
PloS one 20191202 12
A perennial activity of demographers is to estimate the percentage of the world's population which is above or below the 'replacement rate of fertility' [RRF]. However, most attempts to do so have been based upon, at best, oversimplified, or at worst, simply incorrect assumptions about what RRF actually is. The objective of this paper is to calculate the proportion of the world's population living in countries with observed period total fertility rates [TFR] below the respective calculated RRF, ...[more]