Fertility rate of ASEAN countries

[Wholegrain]

The fertility rate in Vietnam has gone down alot and is now below replacement. The two ethnic groups who have reached below rplacement fertility in Vietnam is ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh people) and Chinese. However all other ethnic minorities have above fertility replacement and their populations grow since they live in poverty.

The fertility rate in Vietnam is 1.83 according to the CIA world factbook. Thats lower than the replacement of 2.1

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vm.html

This article is years old, since it came out the fertility rate dropped further. It talks about how the fertility rate of minorities in Vietnam is higher than ethnic Vietnamese.

http://www.popcouncil.org/pdfs/wp/pgy/018.pdf

And this came out recently

Vietnam latest news - Thanh Nien Daily | HCMC couples urged to make more babies

HCMC couples urged to make more babies
Last Updated: Thursday, July 18, 2013 11:25:00

A couple buy a toy for their son in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. The city had the lowest birth rate in the country at 1.33 children per couple in 2012. Photo: Nghia Pham

After decades of efforts to control its booming population, Vietnam, for the first time, is now encouraging parents to give birth to more children.
Vietnam is the 13th most populated country in the world with nearly 90 million people.

“I officially recommend that each Ho Chi Minh City couple have two children,” Duong Quoc Trong, director of the Population – Family Planning Department under the Heath Ministry, said at a press conference on Wednesday.

He said the birth rate has significantly decreased in HCMC and other southern cities and provinces.

HCMC had the lowest birth rate in the country at 1.45 children per couple in 2009. The rate was 1.3 in 2011 and 1.33 in 2012.

The national rate is 2.06 children per couple.

Trong said most couples in HCMC have only one child. Those with two children make up a small proportion of the city population, he said.

The city’s population reached nearly 7.4 million people in 2012, excluding more than one million migrant workers.

At a conference last March in Hanoi, the General Office for Population Family Planning said Vietnam has managed to decrease its fertility rate from 6.36 in 1960-64 to 2.05 in 2011-12.

It said Vietnam is seeing an “obvious” decline in its fertility rate which is expected fall to 1.78 births per woman in 2020.

The rate rises to 2.14-3 for rural women with low levels of education, it said.

Trong said there is a tendency to delay having babies and women also tend to stop having babies before they reach 35.

Experts said at the conference that another reason for the decline is rising infertility.

Nguyen Van Tan, Trong's deputy, said a 2011 study by the Vietnam Military Medical University found nearly 3.2 percent of over 9,300 married couples surveyed were infertile.

Another study by the National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Hanoi Medical University’s obstetrics department last year found that 7.7 percent of more than 14,000 couples could not conceive.

Vietnam is also suffering from a gender imbalance, more boys than girls are being born.

AmCham Vietnam | Gender imbalance threatens crisis in Vietnam

LifeSiteNews Mobile | Abortion causing huge gender imbalance in Vietnam, UN admits

BBC News - UN warns on Vietnam birth ratio

Vietnam in the face of growing gender imbalance | VOV Online Newspaper

http://tuoitrenews.vn/society/10653/sex-imbalance-worsens-gender-inequality-in-vn

SGGP English Edition- Gender imbalance worrisome for Vietnam

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/society/51895/gender-imbalance-threatens-crisis.html

Gender imbalance at birth terrible Implications | DBV | VietNam News

 

[Wholegrain]

Thailand's fertility rate rapidly plummeted to below replacement due to a deliberate family planning and contraceptive policy by the government decades ago. They now face the prospect of an ageing population like the west.

http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/3921/p&p007.pdf?sequence=1

Ageing population may overwhelm Thai pension system: research - The Nation

http://thailand.unfpa.org/documents/thai_ageing_englishversion.pdf

Thailand's Ageing Population | Demotix.com

WHO | The health-care challenges posed by population ageing

http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/pdf/rr08-659.pdf

A tale of two countries: Family planning in the Philippines and Thailand | Inquirer Opinion

 

[Wholegrain]

The Philippines has a big overpopulation problem and high fertility rate due to the Catholic Church forbidden all forms of contraception and birth control. It has a higher fertility rate than Indonesia and Malaysia. Indonesia implemented a family planning policy to control the fertility rate unlike the Philippines. The poverty level in the Philippines is compounded by high fertility and overpopulation.

Indonesia: A Family Planning Model for the Philippines? | Inquirer Opinion

Absence of effective birth control adversely affects Philippine poor | Asia Pacific | ABC Radio Australia

Asia Sentinel - Philippine Supreme Court Delays Birth Control Law

Philippines contraception bill angers church - Australia Network News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Resisting Birth Control, the Philippines Grows Crowded - NYTimes.com

 

[visom]

In a way its often good for poorer countries to have lower birthrates. Its better to have 2 children you can take proper care of than 4 that you can barely afford to feed; this helps to raise standard of living.

 

[Soryu]

Why did you need to make a new thread when you have this?

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