Open AccessAssessing Fertility and Nuptiality Differentials of Rural and Urban Iran
Author(s) -
CF Lee,
M. S. Khan
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v16i4pp.424-434
Subject(s) - fertility , geography , socioeconomics , rural population , demography , demographic economics , population , economics , sociology
Delayed marriage and non-marriage were the important factorsof fertility decline in the classic case of Western Europe [8,1] and insome parts of Eastern Europe [16]. Changes in age structure of marriage,though not so much in the proportion of non-marriage, have also beenobserved along with trends of fertility decline in the recent history ofsome Eastern Asian Countries see, for example, [6,17]. In light of thesehistorical cases it is natural to ask what is, and will be the relativeimpact of nuptiality and fertility change on the growth of populationsin developing nations which remain high in fertility and traditionallyare married young and nearly universally.