Hanoi, 2 December 2005 – At a workshop held by the General Statistics Office (GSO) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Hanoi organized to release the results of the 2005 Population Change Survey, it was announced that the fertility rate had reached replacement level. The replacement level corresponds to a Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of 2.1.
The workshop also made public several other indices, including a Crude Birth Rate (CBR) of 18.6 per thousand and a Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) of 76.8%. Most interesting is that CPR of modern methods reached 65.7% – the highest level so far. Experts agreed that this may be the key factor contributing to the above-mentioned continued fertility decline.
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