Asia-Pacific Population Journal - Volume 7, Issue 4, 1992

questionable aspect of the country’s population dynamics is the preponderant role that abortion plays in fertility decline

China’s birth control programme did reduce couples’ demand for children, but it did not change their attitudes about ’male superiority’

Promotion of temporary methods should not be neglected for spacing or limiting programmes

This note provides updates of the population projections prepared by the State Statistical Office of Mongolia in 1989. The exercise is justified for two reasons. First, as has been the case with other former socialist countries, Mongolia has recently been experiencing substantial economic, social and political transformations that will certainly have a major impact on its future population dynamics. Second, during the last four years, there have been substantial deviations in fertility and mortality trends from those that were foreseen some time ago. In part, these changes have occurred as a result of the transformations that are going on in the country, but mainly because of major changes in population policies. Past and recent population trends in Mongolia, as well as shifts in population policies, are described and examined in the lead article of this Journal starting on page 3.