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Peace Without Poison

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arubaAs a constituent part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Aruba began covert depopulationmeasures at the same time as the Netherlands, in 1946. Aruba’s total fertility rate declinedsteeply from more than 6 children per woman prior to 1946, when hardly anyone on the islandhad even heard of contraceptives, to 2.5 children per woman by 1972, when contraceptives werestill a novelty, to replacement level fertility by 1997. Aruba’s total fertility rate is currently 1.8children per woman and has been below replacement level since 1998.Aruba is in stage four of the demographic transition.971 | P a g e

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