Fertility and Birth Rates Drop in Cuba

HAVANA  TIMES, Jan. 10 — The tendency towards a decrease in Cuba of the fertility (children per woman) and reproduction (daughters per woman) global rates continued in 2010, according to last year’s Economic and Social Panorama, published by the National Office of Statistics. Those indicators are essential in evaluating the process of population aging on the island, reported IPS.

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