Currently Nigeria has the highest birth rate in the world and doing research into the country’s social and ecomomic spheres, there really isn’t that much of a difference between it and other countries that have lower birth rates
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Lack of education for girls and women is a major factor in high birth rates, and when women have access to education the birth rate falls. Indeed, the more rights and ability to participate in society, business, and government women have, the lower the birth rate.
Education and economic / civic participation run alongside women’s status and legal rights in a society-including the right to decide for themselves when & whether to marry, whether they want children, and when they are done having children.
In other words, when women have the practical, legal, and social power to refuse sex, the birth rate falls, regardless of access to birth control. When women lack agency or legal protections from child marriage, forced marriage, trafficking, rape and violence, the birth rate is higher.
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