Fertility and Family Planning Among Immigrant Afghan Women in an Iranian City: A Research Note

Abstract

Recent estimates of fertility level of women in Afghanistan suggest that Afghan women have a very high fertility level as they marry young and continue to have children through the end of reproductive period. However, when Afghan women move to Iran as immigrants, they quickly adopt the fertility patterns of Iran. On the average the Afghan immigrant women in Iran has three children fewer than the average number of children ever born to women in Afghanistan.

Keywords

• fertility
• Islam
• Afghanistan
• Iran
• migration
• fertility patterns
• economic development
• urbanization