Fertility and demographic regimes in the 19th-century countryside of South Belgium. How to explain diversity in terms of fertility decline?

Like most Western countries, 19th-century Belgium was marked by a series of developments and changes, including a decline in fertility rates. Against this backdrop, little is known about the socio-demographic history of the rural world. The rural areas of southern Wallonia, while similar from an economic, social, and cultural point of view, were nevertheless characterized by highly diverse trajectories of fertility decline. Despite a large amount of literature on the subject, the diversity of the processes still needs to be explored. Why does the decline in fertility occur according to such a... Mehr ...