United Nations Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat World Fertility Patterns 1977 LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Trends in total fertility rate ------------------------------------------- Total Total fertility fertility Annual rate per rate per % Country or area Period woman Period woman change --------------------------- ------ ------ ------ --------- ------- Caribbean -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bahamas 1970 3.5 1992 2.0 -2.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Barbados .. .. 1988 1.6 .. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cuba 1970 3.7 1992 1.5 -2.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dominican Republic 1970 6.8 1988-91 3.3 -2.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guadeloupe 1967 5.3 1985 2.6 -2.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haiti 1972-7 5.5 1990-94 5.0 -0.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jamaica 1971-7 5.0 1986-88 2.9 -3.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martinique 1974 3.7 1992 1.9 -2.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Puerto Rico 1970 3.2 1994 2.1 -1.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trinidad and Tobago 1970 3.4 1993 2.0 -1.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Central America -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Belize .. .. 1986-90 4.9 .. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Costa Rica 1971-7 3.8 1988-92 3.2 -1.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- El Salvador 1971 6.2 1988-93 3.8 -2.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guatemala 1973 6.4 1991-95 5.1 -1.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Honduras 1971-7 7.5 1988-91 5.1 -1.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mexico 1971-7 6.2 1990 3.9 -2.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicaragua 1971 6.8 1987-92 4.6 -1.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Panama 1970 5.0 1993 2.7 -2.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- South America -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Argentina 1970 3.2 1993 2.7 -0.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bolivia 1970-7 6.5 1991-94 4.8 -1.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brazil 1970 5.8 1992-96 2.6 -2.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chile 1970 3.3 1994 2.3 -1.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Colombia 1971-7 4.7 1990-94 3.0 -2.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ecuador 1974 5.5 1990 3.3 -2.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guyana 1970 4.2 1985-86 2.6 -2.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paraguay 1974-7 5.0 1987-90 4.7 -0.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peru 1973-7 5.6 1989-92 3.5 -2.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Uruguay 1975 3.0 1985 2.5 -1.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venezuela 1971 5.3 1990 3.6 -1.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The total fertility rate indicates the average number of children that would be born per woman if all women lived to the end of their childbearing years and bore children according to the given age patterns of fertility. Two dots (..) indicate that data are not available. United Nations publication, (ST/ESA/SER.A/165), Copyright (C) United Nations 1997