Comment by vonneumannstan
1 year ago
This totally ignores the fact that the decline in fertility is measurable across the globe in the poorest and wealthiest nations in the world. It's clearly not a simple matter of affordability...
1 year ago
This totally ignores the fact that the decline in fertility is measurable across the globe in the poorest and wealthiest nations in the world. It's clearly not a simple matter of affordability...
Poor countries reproduce more, it's not same everywhere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
The rates are plummeting everywhere. Even countries that have 3 or 4 kids per woman used to have 5 or 6 and are on pace to drop below replacement within 15-20 years.
Look at slide 3 again ("TFR around the world").
those are not the poorest countries (e.g. no african countries are listed either)
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