Proyecto ULTRALOW. Present and Future of Ultra-Low Fertility Societies around the Globe: A Comparative Study of Spain, South Korea and Uruguay

This project aims at examining childbearing behaviour, reproductive intentions and perceived constraints using a birth-order-specific approach, as well as contrasting women and men’s perspectives in Spain, South Korea and Uruguay, three of the world’s lowest fertility countries. The comparison of these so different but so alike countries in terms of lowest-low fertility is both novel and necessary to improve understanding of how cultural, economic and institutional contexts influence childbearing decisions. Some of the hypotheses to be investigated are clearly innovative, since the ultra-low fertility in countries as diverse as Spain, South Korea and Uruguay demands that many of the traditional assumptions and postulates used in demographic theories be reassessed.