Cohort reproductive patterns in the Nordic countries

Total fertility rates were declining from peaks experienced by early 1930s cohorts for 20 successive cohorts. The decline ceased among the 1950s and 1960s cohorts, because fertility deficits of young women were compensated with increased fertility when women reached their late twenties and thirties....

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Published in:Demographic research 2001-01, Vol.5, p.125-186
Main Authors: Frejka, Tomas, Calot, Gérard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Average age
Children
Cohort Analysis
Demography
Family Policy
Female fertility
Females
Fertility
Fertility Decline
Fertility rates
Gender equality
Scandinavia
Social generations
Women
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Summary:Total fertility rates were declining from peaks experienced by early 1930s cohorts for 20 successive cohorts. The decline ceased among the 1950s and 1960s cohorts, because fertility deficits of young women were compensated with increased fertility when women reached their late twenties and thirties. The relative stability of completed fertility of these cohorts is attributed to Nordic social policies. Fertility deficits of young women in 1970s cohorts are comparatively large. For their completed fertility to be similar to that of earlier ones, there is considerably more catching up to do. What remains an open issue is whether social policies will be sufficiently effective for couples born in the late 1960s and the 1970s to have births not born earlier in their lives.
ISSN:1435-9871
2363-7064
1435-9871
DOI:10.4054/DemRes.2001.5.5