Caribbean fertility rates low
Apr 15, 2014
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Guardian - The assumption that the Caribbean is a hotbed of fertility is a fallacy, local experts say.
Rising teenage pregnancies and large families with up to ten children can give a false picture of a highly reproductive population but, with a falling T&T birth rate (currently 15.2 births per year per 1,000 people), the medical director of T&T’s only IVF fertility clinic, Dr Catherine Minto-Bain, says we are just about replacing our population.
In reality, she says T&T and the rest of the region has major problems that need to be addressed.
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