Table 1.
A summary of the characteristics of included articles concerning the causes of TFR decline in the MENA region
| Author/authors | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| United Nations, Population Division [10] | Fertility levels and trends in countries with intermediate levels of fertility, | 2002 |
| United Nations, Population Division [11] | Views and policies concerning population growth and fertility among governments in intermediate-fertility countries | 2002 |
| Norville, C., Gomez, R., and Brown, R. L .[12] | Some causes of fertility rates movements | 2003 |
| Yousef M [13] | Development, growth and policy reform in the Middle East and North Africa since 1950 | 2004 |
| Karim M [14] | Socio-economic development, population policies, and fertility decline in Muslim countries | 2004 |
| Matthiessen P [15] | The demography of the Middle East and North Africa in a global context, | 2005 |
| Roudi-Fahimi F, Kent MM [16] | Challenges and opportunities: the population of the Middle East and North Africa | 2007 |
| Clawson P [17] | Demography in the Middle East: population growth slowing, Women’s situation unresolved | 2009 |
| Mirkin B [7] | Population levels, trends and policies in the Arab region: challenges and opportunities | 2010 |
| Hosseini H [18] | Comparative study of fertility transition and population ageing in four selected countries in the MENA region | 2010 |
| Akhtar, Sh., Reinnika, R., Jorgensen, S., Maeda, A [19] | Meeting the challenges of health transition in the Middle East and North Africa | 2010 |
| Lugo, L., Cooperman, A., O’Connell, E., Stencel, S [20] | The future of the global Muslim population, projections for 2010-2030 | 2011 |
| Crane, K., Simon, S., Martini, J [21] | Future challenges for the Arab world, the implications of demographic and economic trends | 2011 |
| Eberstadt N, Shah A [22] | Fertility decline in Muslim world: a veritable change, still curiously unnoticed | 2011 |
| Mirkin B [23] | Arab Spring: demographics in a region in transition | 2013 |
| Salehi-Isfahani D [24] | The role of the family in social integration in the Middle East and North Africa | 2013 |
| Bommes, M., Fassmann, H., Sievers, W [25] | Migration from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe, past developments, current status and future potentials | 2014 |
| Iqbal F, Kiendrebeogo Y [26] | The reduction of child mortality in the Middle East and North Africa: a success story | 2014 |