Lower infant mortality, higher household size, and more access to contraception reduce fertility in low- and middle-income nations

• Corey J. A. Bradshaw ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Claire Perry, Melinda A. Judge, Peter N. Le Souëf

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Global Ecology Partuyarta Ngadluku Wardli Kuu, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia, National Health and Medical Research Council Special Initiative in Human Health and Environmental Change, Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) Network, Canberra, ACT, Australia

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• Claire Perry ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Claire Perry, Melinda A. Judge, Peter N. Le Souëf

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1866-3748

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• Melinda A. Judge ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Claire Perry, Melinda A. Judge, Peter N. Le Souëf

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9948-1865

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• Chitra M. Saraswati,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

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• Jane Heyworth,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

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• Peter N. Le Souëf

  Contributed equally to this work with: Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Claire Perry, Melinda A. Judge, Peter N. Le Souëf

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: peter.lesouef@uwa.edu.au

  Affiliations National Health and Medical Research Council Special Initiative in Human Health and Environmental Change, Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) Network, Canberra, ACT, Australia, School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

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