Botswana's fertility rate nosedives
Friday, March 23, 2007
Ministry of Finance and Development Planning chief economist, Lesego Chalashika, disclosed this at a legislators' seminar titled: "Working together to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)" held at the Phakalane Golf Estates yesterday.
She stated that fertility declined from 4.2 children in the 1990s to 3.3 or less children in 2001.
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