Socio-Economic Development, Population Policies, And Fertility Decline in Muslim Countries‪.‬

INTRODUCTION As societies transform from a predominantly traditional to a predominantly modem system, they tend to experience considerable demographic changes. Coale (1984) notes that this "transformation is the substitution of slow growth achieved with low fertility and mortality for slow growth maintained with relatively high fertility and mortality rates". Demographic transition in Muslim countries is a fairly late phenomenon as discussed in the next section. Most of these countries have followed a similar trend as by many other developing countries.