DEVELOPMENT IN INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES CORRELATES WITH REDUCED FERTILITY
FIGURE 5.30 Improved Human Development Index scores from 1980 to 2007 were accompanied by reduced total fertility in populations of developing countries in geographic regions around the world. Interpretations provided for the plots of Botswana and Mexico as examples of how all country plots can be read. (Data from United Nations Human Development Report, 2009; U.S. Census Bureau, International Data Base, 2010)