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Family Planning and Reproductive Health
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Rate of Natural Increase (or Decrease)
The rate at which a population is increasing (or decreasing) in a given year due to a surplus (or deficit) of births over deaths, expressed as a percentage of the base population.
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Replacement-Level Fertility
The level of fertility at which a couple has only enough children to replace themselves, or about two children per couple.
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Reproductive Age
See childbearing years.
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Reproductive Health
Reproductive health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes.
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All terms and definitions, except where noted, are excerpted with permission
from the Population Reference Bureau's International Population Handbook, by
Arthur Haupt and Thomas Kane, 4th Edition, 1998.
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