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On the Syrian population growth
Syria, Local, 7/13/2000
The central bureau for statistics in Syria said that the annual population growth in Syria decreased during the years between 1994- 1999 to reach 2.7% after it was during the 1970s and the 1980s 3.35% and 3.3% respectively.
In a bulletin released by the central bureau for statistics to commemorate Syria's achievements under the leadership of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad for the years under his rule 1970- 2000, it explained that among the factors that led to reducing the annual growth average of population in Syria were the reduction in the fertility rate per one woman from 8.5 new births in 19870 to 3.8 new births in 1999 and the increase in the marriage age average for males from 25.9 years in 1970 to 28.9 years in 1999 and for female from 20.6 years to 25.1 years for the same period.
Also among the factors is the reduction of illiteracy rate drastically especially among female from 73.2 % in 1970 to 22% in 1999 and the increase of woman's participation in the economic activity from 8.5 % in 1970 to 19.2% in 1999 and the increase in using family planning means among married women from 20% in 1978 to 45.8 % in 1999, besides the increased of awareness in population and development issues.
The bureau also remarked that the reduction in the population growth average resulted in the decrease in the growth rate of the first elementary class from 5.3% annually in the 1970 s to 3.7% in the 1980s and then to 1.3% in the 1990s and the decrease in the rate of children under 15- year old from 49% in the 1980 s to 40.5% in 1999.
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