Are Filipino women having fewer children?

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donnie

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Jun 30, 2020 3:27 am

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data-fertility-rate-1950 To illustrate, estimates by the United Nations put the TFR of the Philippines at 7.42 live births per woman in the 1950-1955 period, higher than the Southeast Asian average of 5.93 live births per woman.

While the Philippines managed to bring down TFR by 58.9% to 3.05 live births per woman in the 2010-2015 period, this is still above the regional average of 2.35 births per woman as other countries saw faster decelerations in their TFRs during those decades.

data-fertility-rate-2010 The Philippine TFR is also above the 2.1 births per woman replacement rate i.e. the rate at which women give birth to babies just enough to sustain population levels (assuming normal boy-girl sex ratio and low levels of mortality). — BusinessWorld Research / Christine Joyce S. Castañeda

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Prau123

Jun 30, 2020 7:49 am

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Base on the graph (2010-2015), it appears that every countries birth rate has declined severely compared to the graph (1950-1955). However the countries population are growing overall. Since Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries situations are improving, there will be an influx of immigrants also and thereby increasing the population.

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Flower Girl

Jun 30, 2020 9:20 pm

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The difference in the 50s and today is us women are now in the workforce with high degrees.

Most women are targeting careers before having a family. We don't want to be dependent on a man anymore.

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As you said women today want a career before having a family which suggest that they don't have children until much later in their life compared to the women of the 50's. Several Filipino women of today are conceiving their first child in their late 20's or in their 30's which is late compared to our parents and grandparents generation. By then, she's probably considering that it's too late to have a large family. By nature a women approaching middle age have less desire to have several children compared to a young adult. Also at that late age, she and her spouse agreed to have a small family instead.

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Jul 07, 2020 8:25 pm

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Caramela Jae

Jul 01, 2020 12:45 am

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I don't think I can handle 8 children.

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MeLeona

Jul 02, 2020 1:20 am

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We are having fewer children than our grandparents generation but so are the rest of the world. Modern life is very different 50-100 years ago.

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Are Filipino women having fewer children?