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Peace Without Poison

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Contraceptives have no significant role in Panama’s fertility decline. As the record showsPanama’s contraceptive prevalence rate has never exceeded 62% and has actually gone down to53%. And abortion, the historical record shows, is even less of a factor since the abortion ratehas always been below 0.05% in Panama as a whole and has only experienced a peak of 16% inthe Canal Zone during the 1970s.Panama’s per capita GDP began to take off in the early 1990s by which time fertility had beenhalved from 6 to 3 children per woman.Panama is in stage three of the demographic transition.634 | P a g e

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