Reproductive Health; Importance of Income or Education?Comparative Analysis of World Countries, with Emphasize on The Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia

Reproductive health is one of the nec-essities and prerequisites of sustain-able development in contemporary world. In recent years, global attend-ance to this issue has been raised.Since the international conference on population and development in 1994 at Cairo, some countries have tried to improve the standards of reproductive healthHowever, high differences between world countries in reproductive health indicators are remained yet.In this article, first, we have demon-strated different aspects of reprod-uctive health in many regions of the world. Second, most important factors which affect reproductive health have been explained. Secondary analysis is applied as our research method. Data are used from Reproductive Health Report (2006) and Environmental Sus-tainability Index (2005). The sample constitute of 167 countries that their data were accessable. Findings show that the mean of reproductive health in Western Europe and North America is more than other regions of the world. Also, the least amount of reproductive health found in Africa and Asia. In addition, we have clarified that cultural variables especially education is very important in explaining dependent variable bes-ides economic variables such as inco-me per capita.