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Peace Without Poison

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That Barbados’ rapid drop in fertility from 1966 to 1980 or its sub-replacement level fertilitysince 1985 have little or nothing to do with contraceptives is clearly shown by the country’scontraceptive prevalence rate, which was near zero during the 1960s, lower than 20% during the1970s, below 47% during the 1980s, and below 55% to date.Barbados’ abortion rate, at c. 14% since 1988, can also not account for the low fertility.The GDP of Barbados began exploding just as fertility petered down to replacement level in1980.Barbados is at the end of stage four of the demographic transition and about to enter stage five.78 | P a g e

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