CARTAGENA DE INDIAS, Colombia (EFE).— ECLAC warned yesterday that Hispanic America and the Caribbean this year had the worst fertility rate in history, with a 68.4% drop compared to 1950 figures.
“In 1950 we had the second highest fertility rate in the world, second only to Africa, and now we have the third lowest,” said the director of the Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Center (CELADE), Simone Cecchini, at the Cartagena de Indias Convention Center, in the Colombian Caribbean.
Cecchini was in charge of presenting the document “Population, development and rights in Latin America and the Caribbean” at the V Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which opened yesterday and concludes today, where leaders pointed out that “the region is today in a true development crisis.”
The region currently has an average of 1.83 children per mother, but in 1950 that figure was 5.5 children per mother, a development that worried regional representatives of ECLAC.
The report is the second to be produced on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus, a treaty signed in 2013 by 38 of the 46 countries in the region that addressed issues such as regional policies on abortion and voluntary termination of pregnancy, a push for sexual education and the defence of women’s rights.
The second document, which lasted more than 200 pages and was divided into eight sections of the Consensus, was used to analyse the progress made in the evolution of the priority measures of the agreement eleven years following its adoption.
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2024-07-15 02:24:41
