Table 3.

Categorization of 78 countries according to the characteristics of their fertility transition

		Roles of Parity-Specific Limitation and Parity-Independent Curtailment
Role of Spacing	Role of Postponement	Mostly Curtailment	Mixed	Mostly Limiting
Substantial increase in spacing	Substantial postponement	Morocco	Costa Rica	Colombia Dominican Republic Guyana Peru
	Postponement	Jordan	Egypt	Brazil
	Little or no postponement	Sudan (North) Yemen
Limited or no increase in spacing	Substantial postponement	Malawi Liberia Zimbabwe	Lesotho Namibia Haiti Myanmar	South Africa Ecuador El Salvador Honduras Paraguay Moldova Ukraine Bangladesh Maldives Indonesia
	Postponement	Benin Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Congo (Republic) Côte d’Ivoire Ghana Mozambique São Tomé and Principe Senegal Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Mexico	Trinidad and Tobago Gabon Kenya Madagascar Rwanda Kyrgyz Republic Sri Lanka Thailand	Bolivia Guatemala Nicaragua Albania Armenia Turkey Cambodia Philippines Vietnam
	Little or no postponement	Comoros Congo (Democratic Republic) Ethiopia Gambia Guinea Nigeria Sierra Leone Tunisia Afghanistan Pakistan Timor-Leste	Kazakhstan Tajikistan Uzbekistan	Azerbaijan India Nepal