Marital fertility and the changing status of women in Europe

摘要

Fertility has by now reached very low levels in all European countries, with the exception of Albania, which is in a deviating situation. Birth rates in the other countries vary between 10 and 25‰, with minimum levels in the two German republics, Luxembourg, Finland, Austria, England and Wales, Belgium, and Sweden, and maximum levels in Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.