The Effect of Infant Mortality Rate, Education and Income Per Capita on Total Fertility Rate in Indonesia

Most of developing countries that have a large population facing several economic and social problem such as high unemployment and etc. Indonesia as one of the developing countries and also has a large population also experienced such a problem. In the year of 2010, the total population in Indonesia is almost a quarter billion and this number is predicted to increase every year. In order to overcome the fast growth of population, the Indonesian government needs to decline the population growth by reducing the total fertility rate. This study focuses on analyzing the effect of infant mortality rate, education and income per capita on reducing total fertility rate in Indonesia by employing the data from 1970 until 2016 and use multivariate time series analysis to answer the model of the equation. The major finding of this research is the effect of tertiary education enrolment rate is negatively affect the total fertility rate and also the effect of infant mortality rate and income per capita positively affect the total fertility rate. Keyword: Total Fertility Rate, Infant Mortality Rate, Education, Income per capit