Family Planning Programs in the Third World

Bibliographic Data

ID9753208
AuthorsRonald Freedman (University of Michigan, corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume510
Issue1
Pages33-43
Publication date1990-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716290510001003
OpenAlexW2134199354
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited12

Most of the population of less developed countries (LDCs) now lives in countries with national family planning programs to reduce fertility and improve family welfare. Such programs are a new phenomenon. In some LDCs increasing birth-control practice and fertility declines occurred along with considerable social and economic development, but even there rapid changes among the disadvantaged masses are generally associated with strong family planning programs. Fertility has also fallen in some countries with only some development but with vigorous family planning programs. China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand are such cases. In such places as sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, fertility generally remains quite high, apparently because of little development and traditional familial institutions. Even in these situations, however, there are examples of significant fertility declines, in some cases nationally and in other cases in intensive, high-quality pilot projects that have established the latent demand for family planning

Birth rate · China · Developed country · Developing country · Development economics · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Family planning · Family planning policy · Fertility · Geography · Population · Population control · Research methodology · Total fertility rate · Welfare · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine