The richest and poorest quintiles represent the 20% richest and 20% poorest share of a country's population respectively.
The fertility rate is defined as the average number of children to be born during the lifetime of a fertile woman.
The women from Colombia who comprise the poorest quintile in Colombia have reduced their total fertility rate from 5.2 to 4.4 between 1995 and 2000. <u>Therefore the data presented evidences that poor women in Colombia are having almost one fewer child per person between those years. </u>
