From 1975 to 1980, Iran's total fertility rate averaged about 6.2 children per woman. Thirty years later, that rate had fallen to just 1.76 per woman, a 70%+ decline. The majority of this decline took place between 1986 and 1996, when the Iranian government implemented a major family planning program. In other words, Iran, seen as one of the more traditional, conservative Muslim societies today, engineered one of the most rapid fertility declines in modern history. Today, the country struggles to raise those rates once more. In this video, we take a look at the history of Iran’s population and family planning policies.
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