Fertility and early child bearing

Just in case you are not already tired of reading about fertility. I wrote here and here on how the high fertility rates in Nigeria are probably not driven by knowledge about birth control or female empowerment ( between husbands and wives). The two graphs below suggest they are driven by early marriage and pregnancy.…

Weird fertility and female empowerment stats

Just a little background. One of the arguments for how to reduce fertility rates is female empowerment in households. The idea is that some wives may not necessarily want lots of kids but have no power financially to take control of the situation. In essence they are not economically independent enough to withstand pressures from…

Ah.. Fertility back in focus

First of all Nigeria has a population problem. We have a huge population which is growing at about 2.5% per year. Not alarming but something to be concerned about. Seeing as you can’t really argue for killing people off to control the population, the spotlight is on births. Fertility. Nigeria has one of the highest…