(Le Temps-Switzerland) Anna Lietti - In the last 30 years, the number of children per woman in the Muslim world has dropped by more than 50%. In Iran, the drop is 75%; in North Africa it is 70%. Today, many countries have dropped well below the population replacement rate: in Lebanon, there are 1.6 children per woman. Under the secular Shah, Iranian women had an average of seven children each. Today, they have 1.8. In 2005, for the first time the fertility among Palestinian women in eastern Jerusalem (3.94) dropped below the fertility rate for Jewish women (3.95).
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