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Fertility rate down 43 percent

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    The fertility rate in the Cape Verde Islands has decreased by about 43 percent during the past two decades, with women now having an average of four children, down from seven, the National Institute of Statistics said on Tuesday.

    The institute’s president, Francisco Fernandes Tavares, was presenting results of the archipelago’s first demographic and reproductive health survey. He also said that infant mortality had decreased by 11 percent to 31 deaths per 1,000 during the first year of life.

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