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Peace Without Poison

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Abortion is a not a factor in the country’s fertility decline since it is illegal and performed only tosave a woman’s life.The UAE has been rewarded for its war on fertility with an exploding GDP. Such is the boostingpower of low fertility for economic prosperity that even for a country as rich in oil as the UAE itproved to be the decisive factor in its growing affluence. As the graph below shows, the GDPdid not begin to soar until the turn of the century when the UAE reached replacement levelfertility.The UAE is in stage four of the demographic transition.902 | P a g e

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