Fertility rate below replacement: report
Wellington reporter The New Zealand fertility rate has been below the theoretical replacement level since the late 19705, says the Statistics Department. In 1983, New Zealand women averaged only 1.9 births each compared with 4.3 per cent at the peak of the "baby boom” in 1961. From 1961 to 1983, the number of live births dropped from more than
65,00’0 to less than 50,000, in spite of a significant increase in the number of women of child-bearing age. Initially it was felt the decline was largely because of the deferment of births, but data indicates a drop in average family size. The generation of New Zealand women bom from 1933 to 1935 had about 3.3 births by age 35, while those born in 1949 averaged 2.4.
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