Demographic Transition in East Asia

Fertility and Death Rates, 1993

                 Total        Crude      Crude  
           Fertility Rate  Birth Rate Death Rate 

Indonesia          2.8        24          8      
Thailand           2.1        19          6      
Malaysia           3.5        28          7      
Republic of Korea  1.7        16          6      
Singapore          1.7        16          6      
Hong Kong          1.2        11          6      
Japan              1.5        10          8      

South Asia         6.2        31         15      
Sub-Saharan Africa 4.7        44         10      
Latin America      3.1        26          7      
Middle East        4.0        33         10
Note: Crude Death Rate: number of deaths per 1000 of population in the year
Total Fertility Rate: number of children born to a woman if she were to live till the end of her childbearing age, in accordance with age-specific fertility rates
Age-specific fertility rate: ratio of number of live births from women aged 'x' to the number of women aged 'x' in the middle of that year

SourceWorld Development Report, Development Indicators, Table 26