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07-20-2007, 07:00 PM
Women in the DR are having fewer babies at a time when the population is aging. Thus in percentages, the DR is getting old. For example between 1920 and 1935 the growth rate was at 3.5%. For every 1,000 people, 35 new people were added to the population. But between 1993 and 2002 the birth rate has fluctuated between 2% and 1.8%, representing only 20 and 18 new people. The cause of the decrease can be attributed to the fact that after the 1960s women, who used to have an average of eight children, started having fewer babies. Today the average is 2.8 children per mother.
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