Differentials and time trends for the prevalence of lifetime biological female childlessness among older women in developing countries
Switbert Rwechungura Kamazima
Article history:
Received: 05 December, 2022
Accepted: 14 December, 2022
Available Online: 02 March, 2023
Corresponding Author:
Dr. Switbert Rwechungura Kamazima
Abstract
Background: Lifetime biological childlessness is an essential public health issue component of reproductive health. Biological childlessness experience has social, economic, and psychological effects on women; their partners, families and nations. Effects range from mental health, anxiety, depression, ostracization and divorce. Between 48 million couples and 186 million individuals live with infertility, where half of these couples reside in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Lifetime childlessness data are available from the developed world, little information exists in developing world.
Aim: To assess the prevalence of lifetime biological female childlessness among older women in developing countries.
Methods: With permission from DHS MEASURE, I acquired data from eight countries in sub-Sahara Africa, North Africa and West Asia, Central Asia/South and Southeast Asia and Latin America/Caribbean to assess the prevalence of lifetime biological female childlessness among older women in developing countries. The analyses included descriptive to estimate biological childlessness for each country in all selected surveys. I used the Chi-squared test to examine linear-by-linear association between the survey date and the proportion of biological childlessness.
Results: Demographic, education, economic and attitudinal factors envisage childlessness among older women around the globe. Women may experience these forces differently due to differences in overtime changes in policy context, diversity over the circumstances in life course and across generations.
Conclusions: Increased availability of, access to and utilization of assisted treatment technologies in the developing world, age limits for late fertility/advanced childbearing and very late fertility/very advanced childbearing will be extended as experienced in the developed countries.
Key words
Biological childlessness, Childlessness, Demographic and Health Surveys, Developing countries, Lifetime infertility
Citation:
Switbert Rwechungura Kamazima, 2023. Differentials and time trends for the prevalence of lifetime biological female childlessness among older women in developing countries. The Journal of Public Health. Photon 125, 130-144
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