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Peace Without Poison

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That Austria did not reach replacement level fertility, or has kept below replacement level since1973 and below 1.5 children per woman since 1993, is made painfully obvious by the country’slow contraceptive prevalence rate. Furthermore, while the contraceptive prevalence rate peakedfrom 1976 to 1987 at 72% and has been going down ever since, fertility has continued to declineand remains at 1.4 children per woman to this day.Nor can abortion be a factor since Austria’s abortion rate is very low at less than 3%.Austria is in the fifth and last stage of the demographic transition.53 | P a g e

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