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Title: | Nigeria's population policy and future fertility decline |
Author: | Mba, Chuks J. |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Research Review (ISSN 0855-4412) |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 23-37 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Nigeria West Africa |
Subjects: | population policy fertility demography Fertility decline |
Abstract: | The government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria promulgated its first explicit population policy in 1988, in response to the soaring population growth rate that impedes developmental efforts. The policy document has stipulated a number of quantitative demographic targets. Paramount among these is the intention to reduce total fertility rate (TFR) to 4, raise the use of family planning methods to 80 percent, and raise mean age at first marriage to 18 years, by the year 2000. However, a macrosimulation analysis of changes in the proximate determinants of fertility as enshrined in the policy document reveals that Nigeria's TFR will fall from about 6 to 2 instead of 4, which is far beyond the government's expectations. It is, therefore, needful to revisit the demographic targets of the population policy of Nigeria. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract] |