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| [[Category:Done 2015-04-01]] | | #REDIRECT [[population replacement rate]] |
| <onlyinclude>'''Replacement rate''' is the number of children that a couple would have to have over the course of their reproductive years in order to replace themselves.</onlyinclude><ref> Population Reference Bureau. (2015, Mar. 5). ''Glossary of Demographic Terms'' [Online]. Available: http://www.prb.org/Publications/Lesson-Plans/Glossary.aspx</ref> The UN states that this replacement rate worldwide is 2.1 children per couple;<ref name="UN">UN Population Division. (2015, Mar. 5). ''World Urbanization Prospects'' (2014 Revision) [Online]. Available: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/Country-Profiles/.</ref> however, some regions have higher or lower rates depending on whether or not the country is developed, with less developed countries needing 2.3 children born per couple to replace the population.<ref name="Ref1">Matt Rosenburg. (2015, Mar. 5). ''Total Fertility Rate'' [Online]. Available: http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/fertilityrate.htm</ref> This additional 0.1 or 0.3 is due to the fact that replacement cannot occur if a child does not live to the end of their reproductive years and have their own children; thus, this extra is added per couple to account for death or infertility as adults.<ref name="Ref1" /> Less stable countries require higher numbers of children to be born per couple on average since more people don't make it to the end of their reproductive years.
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| As countries develop, [[fertility rate]]s generally tend towards the replacement rate.<ref name="UN"/> This is due to decreased levels of child mortality, better access to food and medicine, and fewer cases of civil war. Being able to look at a country's total fertility rate in comparison to its replacement rate can give insight into whether or not the population of the country will increase or decrease, generally speaking. In countries that have a higher total fertility rate than the replacement rate there will be a positive population growth, whereas if the total fertility rate is lower than the replacement rate there will ''eventually'' be a negative population growth as people have fewer children, but this effect often takes decades.<ref> Statistics Canada. (2015, Mar. 5). ''Components of Population Growth'' [Online]. Available: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-003-x/2007001/4129903-eng.htm</ref> Also, fertility rate is only one factor in determining the long-term population; emigration and immigration rates also play into a country's population growth. For example, Canada's population is growing because almost as many people are immigrating to Canada as are being born here.<ref>See Stat's Canada data online (accessed March 16th, 2015): http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-209-x/2013001/article/11784/c-g/fig01-eng.htm and http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-209-x/2013001/article/11787/fig/fig1-eng.htm</ref>
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