Tag: fertility

  • How Israel Defied the Second Demographic Transition—Thus Far

    How Israel Defied the Second Demographic Transition—Thus Far

    Israel’s extreme demographic exceptionalism can be summarized in the following figure: Each point in the chart represents one of the OECD countries, a group commonly used as a reference for Israel in socio-economic comparisons. Along the horizontal axis, the countries are ordered by their total fertility rate (TFR) in 1960. The TFR is the standard…