Arabian Peninsula
This country had the lowest fertility rate in the Arabian Peninsula block in 2021, at 1.5 births per woman.
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
What country had the largest reported fertility decline in the entire Arab world, at 24.3%.
Jordan
This country had the highest fertility rate in the Arab world in both 2011 and 2021.
Somalia
The study links higher levels of this among women with lower fertility.
Education
The researchers used fertility-rate data from this international source.
World Bank
This country recorded the largest reported fertility decline in the Arabian Peninsula block, at 19.1%.
Yemen
This country ranked second in the Arab world for reported fertility decline, at 22.2%.
Iraq
This was the only country in the study with no reported fertility decline.
Algeria
This change in the timing of marriage was discussed as one explanation for lower fertility in the UAE and Jordan.
Later marriage, or a rising age at marriage.
These were the two years compared in the study.
2011 and 2021
The Arabian Peninsula mean fertility rate changed from this value in 2011 to this value in 2021.
2.6 to 2.2 births per woman
This country had the smallest decline in the Fertile Crescent block, changing from 2.2 to 2.1 births per woman.
Lebanon
This country had the largest reported decline in the African Arab block, at 15.1%.
Djibouti
This family-planning factor may influence fertility, although the pattern differed between Yemen and Jordan.
Contraceptive use
Name one major limitation of the study.
Using only two comparison years
Not testing causes
Excluding war and migration
Relying on country averages.
This country recorded one of the smallest declines in the Arabian Peninsula block, at 4.5%.
Kuwait
This area changed from 4.3 births per woman in 2011 to 3.5 in 2021.
West Bank and Gaza
This country’s fertility rate fell from 7.3 in 2011 to 6.3 in 2021.
Somalia
The paper describes these two outside forces but excludes them from the analysis.
War and migration?
This is the number of Arab League countries included in the study.
22
This country remained the highest-fertility country in the Arabian Peninsula block in 2021, at 3.8 births per woman.
Yemen
The Fertile Crescent regional mean declined by this amount, from 3.3 to 2.7 births per woman.
0.6 births per woman
The African Arab regional mean fell from 3.8 in 2011 to this value in 2021.
3.4 births per woman
This social factor in the UAE may affect fertility by shaping expectations about work, marriage, and family.
Gender roles
This measure means the average number of children a woman would have during her lifetime.
Total fertility rate