total fertility rate relates to the number of children that a woman bears in the fertility period of her life. fertility function is one of the most important health and population indicators. this indicator affects social, health, economic and cultural factors. this study is an ecological or correlative one. factors affecting total fertility rate in iran in the year 2000 are studied in this pa...

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iran’s significant success in implementing family planning (fp) during the past 25 years, has made it a role model in the world. the total fertility rate (tfr) in iran has dropped from 6.5 in 1960 to 1.6 in 2012, which is well below the targeted value of 2.2 for the country. iran’s success story, however, did not merely root in the implementation of fp programs. in other words, families’ strong...

Respected editor 1 In his article Bellieni mentioned ‘in western countries couples have high expectative about the advantages of delayed parenthood and exploit fertility as late as possible’ (1). Decreasing total fertility rate (TFR) is the number of children who would be born per woman (or per 1,000 women) if she/they were to pass through the childbearing years bearing children according to a ...

extended abstract introduction the fertility transition in iran has pass through different stages from 1972-2015.the total fertility rate (tfr) decreased from 7.7 in 1966 to around 6 in 1976.then it rose to 7 in 1980.tfr decline to 5.5 in 1988.in 1996,thetotal fertility rate reach to 2.8,more than 50% decline. tfr has declined further and reached 2.17 in 2000, and 1.9 in 2012 i.e. below replace...