A Summary Of Togo's Fertility

Similarly, Togo’s Fertility can be analyzed through studying different measurements taken from certain groups of the population throughout different points in time. The crude birth rate is probably the simplest and most common measurement of fertility and as of the year 2015, Togo maintained a rate of 38 births per 1,000 of the population per year. Additionally, the total fertility rate was most recently (2015) projected at 4.8, however, that projection only shows what would happen if the childbearing conditions remained exactly the same. In 2013, the age specific birth rate for adolescent fertility was 53 births per 1,000 women ages 15-19 years old. In comparison to other less developed countries, more developed countries and the world …show more content…
This typically implies that a Togo might be experiencing a transition from the stage 3 of the demographic transition model into a stage 4. Currently, the percent of married women ages 15-49 using contraception is 20% for all methods and 17% for modern methods. The averages of the least developed countries in the world are 30% and 29% and in more developed countries the means have reached 62% and 56% respectively. This may indicate that there is further room for improvements in access to health care, education or in women’s …show more content…
However, doubling time doesn’t take into consideration changing conditions such as decreasing rates of natural increase, improvements in access to contraception, or events that may spike mortality. Given the slowly declining rate of natural increase and the more recent population trends replicating the constrictive demographic transition model, I think that is likely to be an overestimate. The population has increase substantially from 1.3 million in 1950 to over 7 million in 2015 as it became an expansive stage 2 and mid-stage 3 developing nation. The country now seems to be slowing down in terms of population growth and reaching a more constrictive