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Birth Rates in Aboriginal Communities
Ken Bailie
Birth rate in aboriginal communities is much than non-aboriginal communities, but
the aboriginal communities' birth rate is dropping as well
Fertility rates among women who are first nations people dropped from 5.7 in 1970
to 4.1 in 1975, to 3.4 in 1980, to 3.2 in 1985, 2.7 in 1990, and 2.55 in 1995
Aboriginal birth rates have stabilized at twice as high as non-aboriginal people. As
more enter their reproductive years this number will remain significantly higher.
Fertility rate for status Indians remains 50% higher than the general Population,
which is 1.8 births per woman.
The decline in the fertility rate has been more than offset by the increase in
numbers of women in their childbearing years.
This hasn’t created a demographic bulge, but has created a stable birth rate that is
twice the non-aboriginal birth rate
The many young aboriginal peoples entering the childbearing years just goes to
show that this trend with a huge aboriginal birth rate is not going to end for many
years to come.
The high birth rates are mostly in the prairie provinces due to the concentration of
aboriginal peoples there, but the very low fertility rate of the Metis balances this
high rate for full aboriginal peoples
Aboriginal population has always been generally younger than the general
population.
Aboriginal fertility rate has dropped with the dropping fertility rate in the general
population