EX::ONOMIC (X)MMISSION FOR AFRICA
liorking Group on Fertility Levels and Differentials in Africa and the
Prospects for the Future
Addis Ababa,
18-22
December1972
COUNTRY STATEMENT LffiERIA
M72-4250
Distr.
LIMITED
POP/INF/I09 5
December1972
Original: ENGLISH
POP!INF!l09 Page 2
General Fertility Trends
Accompanying this statement are two published documents both on the natality situation of the country. They are the results of the first ~d . second year (1970 and 1971) continuous demographic survey which was ~Qunched
in mid-1969·
In the table below there are sOme differences in the fertility indices of the 1970 and 1971 figures. Nearly a~l of these differences are due to sampling variability and do not represent any basic changes in the fertility trends over the one year interval. However, since the exercise is an
eA~erimentalene, it will be quite appropriate.to take the average of the two data as most reliable.
I
•
POP/INF/lc:$
Page 3
Fertility indices (cont'd)
1970 1971
AverageGross Reproc"uction rate
zl
Liberia
3175 2675 2925
Rural
3260 3010 3135
Urban
2865 2385 2625
Net Reproduct1on rate
" §!
Liberia
2336 1751 2043
Rural
2321 1920 2120
Urban
2352 1669 2010
Median Age at childbirth
Liberia
27 27 27
Rural
27 27
27Urban