Preface

The unprecedented high rates of population growth have stimulated the researchers from various fields to strive to understand the change in population dynamics with respect to it’s composition and vital rates. Fertility, mortality and migration are three of the main demographic factors which govern the pace of population dynamics. Fertility being the most crucial factor in determining the demographic profile of any country has gained the attention of social scientists and demographers to study the complex phenomenon of human reproduction. Precise estimates of human fertility are very important for formulation, implementation and execution of various development plans as well as family welfare programmes. The researchers have intelligibly studied the interrelationships among fertility and it’s social, economic, psychological and physiological determinants.