why is the fertility rate higher in countries that are poor?

Answer 1

a number of reasons.

some of the include

- lack of knowledge on how to prevent contraception
- the knowledge that some children won't live to adulthood to support them
- poorer countries are not usually not industrialized, the poorest still live on subsistence farming - need children to help around the farm.
- no choice for the woman in terms of child rearing. poorer countries also tend to have poorer rights for women.

Answer 2

1.Religion:it's a fact that for some reason religion is very serious in poor countries of the world sometimes i think it's an escape of some sort...but anyway when religion comes into play in pregnancy issues most times within marriage or outside Abortion is not an issue,even in some cases contraception is a sin.
2.Culture:In some cultures the more children especially men a woman can concieve the more respect she gets from members of the family or community.
3.Limited choices for entertainment:the truth is when u have limited entertainment or ways to let off steam...sex or violence is often the way must people go.

Ofcourse u'ld have to do additional research because there's definitely more to it than the reasons i've put down.These are just the few i can put in words.

Answer 3

it is not the fertility that is higher, it is the birth that is higher.

genetically, the fertile one will breed more thus create more fertile generation.

but in richer culture the "not so fertile" can breed too... + the explaination which other describe, like education &planning, it limit the domination of the fertile offspring.

in poor one , the individu is more collective for survival, so they are less worry about their children future, when in the rich one they prepared to stand by their own feet.

Answer 4

There are a couple of theories, but economists and social scientists do not fully understand this fact.

First, as others have said, access to family planning is poor in less developed countries.

Second, having children is a way of financing your old age, assuming that they will be earning money, when it is time for you to retire.

Third, the standard of living is lower than in richer countries. That means there are less incentives for woment to go to work rather than stay at home and have children.

Answer 5

fertility rate - no just more people having kids - lack of knowledge of birth control, contraception etc - plus they don't have cable - sex is great entertainment when there is little else to do. Think i am kidding - nine months after the major black out in New York city, about 1965 the birth rate went thur the roof

Answer 6

wealth usually means better over all education, which leads to more birth control and family planing. It also means people from wealthy nations are too busy in school and work to have time to have more babies. But if you are hungry you don't have money to spend on birth control pills or condoms and sex seems like a cheap form of passing the time

poor countries also have a high infant death rate - you tend to have more births when a significant portion of them are dying off

poor countries hang on to traditional values which is go forth and multiply type ideas (verses women who chose to go to work instead in the west) and a large family means you have family to take care of you when you are old (verses health insurance and social security in the west)

Answer 7

No i think what they mean is how is it possible for more people to become pregnant not why they become pregnant,i think its because the poorer countries don't have things like the pill and hormone supplements to screw with their natural reproductive cycles

Answer 8

They don't have the concept of contraception.