Stabilizing World Population 179VViÃÃÊÌÊVÌÀ>Vi«ÌÛiÃÊUÊ}ÕÀiÊÇ°£1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010012345678Average number of children born per woman
01020304050607080Percentage of women using contraceptivesEgyptEl Salvador
ThailandBarry Iverson/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images World Bank 2012
a. Women in the rural town of Sinnuris, Egypt,
learn about family planning and birth control.b. Developing countries around the world have experienced declines
in their fertility rates (TFRs) as women there have increased their use
of contraceptives. Solid lines represent fertility rates; broken lines
represent percentages of contraceptive use by women 15–49.Not
high school
graduateHigh school
graduateBachelor’s
degreeGraduate or
professional
degree2.82.42.01.6
1.20.80.4Average number of children born per woman 0Sandra Teddy/Getty Images News/Getty ImagesBased on data from U.S. Census Bureau.a. Teen mothers gather at the
Auckland Girls' Grammar School
Eden Campus in Auckland, Australia,
a teen parenting facility that allows
young mothers to remain enrolled in
school. A demographer looking at
this scene would see the possibility
of lower TFRs for the women in this
photograph because they are
continuing their education.b. Demographers know that the total number of children a
woman has during her life (TFR) is affected by the amount of
education she has received. The bar graph shows TFRs for 35- to
44-year-old women in the United States by level of education. A similar
trend—in which more education leads to lower TFRs—also occurs
among women in developing countries.WHAT A SCIENTIST SEES
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