To put it another way, the rich lead the decline in fertility, producing a short-term increase in income inequality as they capture the benefits of demographic change first.

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According to the UN's population division, the nationwide fertility rate will continue to decline, reaching 1.51 in 2015-20.

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The trend was a steep decline in fertility.

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When the cohort born roughly in the years between 1993 and 2005 enters prime child-bearing years, there is going to be a pretty significant decline in the crude birth rate even if the total fertility rate (TFR) continues to move modestly higher.

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Maybe the Visegrad countries, for one reason or another, are experiencing a decline in fertility for reasons that are entirely their own and that have nothing whatsoever to do with their political or economic systems.

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They knew that China's fertility rate, or the average number of children born to each woman, was in decline even before the one-child policy began in 1980.

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Every country in Eastern Europe, and a number of Western countries as well, has a fertility rate that will lead to substantial long-term population decline and Russia is the exact opposite of unique in this regard.

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