Population Dynamics and Birth Spacing in Oman

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ID8967916
AuthorsAlasdair Drysdale (corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume42
Issue1
Pages123-144
Publication date2010-01-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743809990560
OpenAlexW1968578505
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited3

At the time of its first modern census in 1993, Oman had one of the world's highest fertility rates (6.9 children per woman) and over half of the population was under the age of fifteen and yet to enter its peak childbearing years. In response, Oman introduced a Birth Spacing Program in 1994, encouraging couples to space births by at least three years and making a wide range of modern contraceptives available throughout the sultanate. Although the program was ostensibly designed to promote reproductive and child health, it clearly had a demographic agenda. By 2006, the fertility rate had dropped to 3.2 children per woman and the contraceptive prevalence rate had increased sharply. However, these changes cannot be attributed solely to the Birth Spacing Program and must be seen in the broader context of delayed marriage and extraordinary gains in social well-being, health, and female education

Birth rate · Census · Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Functional illiteracy · Geography · Political science · Population · Poverty · Research methodology · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Total fertility rate · Unemployment · Urbanization · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Medicine · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Socioeconomic Development in MENA

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