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Peace Without Poison

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Uzbekistan’s contraceptive prevalence rate is too low at 65% to possibly account for thecountry’s rapid decrease to and maintenance of replacement level fertility, especially since theabortion rate has never exceeded 25% and has been below 10% since the turn of the 21 st century.Uzbekistan’s economic data confirms that replacement level fertility is the magic point at whichGDP per capita begins to rise rapidly. As the graph below shows the GDP began to rise rapidlystarting in 2007, the year Uzbekistan achieved replacement level fertility.Uzbekistan is in stage three of the demographic transition.925 | P a g e

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