Interrelatiollships of Some Fertility Measures in Pakistan

MASlHUR Khan and Lee Bean
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MASlHUR Khan: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.
Lee Bean: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.

The Pakistan Development Review, 1967, vol. 7, issue 4, 504-518

Abstract: Unlike mortality or migration, the fertility· behaviour of a population largely determines its age distributionl . A high fertility population maintains a broad-based age pyramid by adding continuously a large number of persons at the first year of life. In such a population the dependency ratio of children (say persons under 15 years) remains high relative to the size of its working age population (say those aged 15-64 years). A decline in fertility reduces this ratio and restructures the age distribution to make it more favourable to economic growth2 [4]. For this reason the study of human fertility occupies a singularly important position in the demographic literature today.

Date: 1967
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